Mineralöl-Raffinerie Dollbergen GmbH: Sigrid Küchmeister new Sales & Marketing Manager
As of 1 April 2011, there is a new face at the helm of the Mineralöl-Raffinerie Dollbergen GmbH (MRD) Marketing & Sales department. Sigrid Küchmeister (45) will be applying her many years of experience and internationally gained practical knowledge to meeting customer-oriented market development targets, reporting directly to managing director Bernd Merle.
Merle views Sigrid Küchmeister's extensive experience as an important building block in the company's development plans: “We will be reviewing our distribution in a great number of markets, and adapt our marketing accordingly. Our strategy – innovation and sustainability – and the department's reposi- tioning in the company structure will help us to realise our ambitious growth targets faster.
We are pleased that with Sigrid Küchmeister, we were able to win an excellent expert to meet this challenge. With her on board, we will strengthen our market position, and extend it even further.”
Sigrid Küchmeister agrees that the future looks good for the Mineralöl- Raffinerie Dollbergen, particularly due to its position as a leading innovator in the markets: “With its first-class, top- quality eco-lubricants and a practically unique value creation chain, the company is in a very good position. The products’ image and the convincing processes offered by the company are excellent. Focusing more strongly on marketing and distribution therefore offers a major potential for extending the worldwide market share even further in the markets that are most important for us.”
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New ATIEL president appointed
Peter Tjan has been confirmed as the new president of ATIEL, the technical association of the European lubricants industry.
Peter took up the position earlier this year and combines a solid understanding of the downstream oil industry with extensive experience of dealing at the highest level with EU Commission officials, MEPs, Member State and Council representatives and international institutions.
During a 25-year career as an oil industry executive he gained experience in refining and lubricants marketing and sales, in roles that took him across Europe and North America.
In 2001 Peter established a Brussels- based consultancy that specialises in EU energy, climate and environment policy. Between 2001 and 2007 he also acted as Secretary General of EUROPIA, representing the business interests of the oil refining industry towards the EU institutions.
Peter is a Dutch national, has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delft and holds a PhD in catalysis.
LINK
www.atiel.org
New Chief Executive for FPS
The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive. Joining the FPS from his previous role as Executive Secretary at the Nuclear Institute, Mark Askew succeeds Susan Hancock as Chief Executive. Joining the FPS on 1 April 2011, he will work alongside Susan until she retires in the summer of 2011.
Fifty year old Mark has over 30 years of experience across a range of sectors. For the past five years, he has run the Nuclear Institute’s secretariat. Mark also
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managed the merger of The Institution of Nuclear Engineers and the British Nuclear Energy Society to form the Nuclear Institute and went on to develop policies and strategy for the new body. Prior to joining the Nuclear Institute, Mark spent 10 years with the Aluminium Federation, much of it as Technical Director.
Appointed to drive the next stage of the Federation's growth, Mark comments: “The FPS has achieved considerable success and I’m delighted to be joining
the organisation. The FPS has always worked very hard for its membership and I intend to continue with that tradition.”
LINK
www.fpsonline.co.uk
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