Jean-Michel Alarcon is appointed Chief Executive Officer of Minakem SAS as of June 1st, 2007. He will be as well in charge of the Corporate development of Group Minakem, and will be a member of the Group’s General Management Committee.Chartered chemical engineer, graduated from IMD (Lausanne-CH) in economics and management, Jean-Michel Alarcon joined Hoechst in 1986. He was first assigned to the process development unit in Lamotte factory, before being promoted R&D Director in 1996. In 2002, he was nominated "Global Business Director Glyoxal Derivatives" for Clariant, and Life Sciences Division Director of the French subsidiary. He had been in charge of "Specialty Intermediates" since 2005, one of the 27 Clariant business units, with responsibility for 3 manufacturing plants, Lamotte (France), Gainesville (USA), and Roha (India). He had been as well President of Clariant Specialty Fine Chemicals (France) since 2006.
The members of the Group’s General Management Committee are Frédéric Gauchet: President, Jean-Michel Alarcon: CEO of Minakem and Director of Corporate development, Jean Pierre Diehl: CEO of Minasolve (Building Blocks) and Project Manager for China, Karsten Fischer: CEO of Chemtec, Philippe Guerret : CFO, Michael Staff : President of Minakem USA and Business Development North-America, and Pierre Dedenys : Project Manager and Committee’s Secretary.
About Minakem Group:
MINAKEM is a "one-stop-shop" group serving the life-science industries, namely, the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. The companies focus on the synthesis of the tailor-made molecules, their formulation, their dose-forming and the production of the registration dossiers for approval of the manufacturing processes.
For more information visit www.minakem.com or www.chemtec-leuna.de
Source: Minakem
