Akzo Nobel has announced that Ben Noteboom will be nominated as a member of the Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting being held in April 2023. The Supervisory Board intends to subsequently elect him as Chair.
In his function as chair, Ben Noteboom would be succeeding Nils Andersen, who will retire as Chair and member of the Supervisory Board at the same time. This concludes a thorough search and selection process which has been conducted by the Supervisory Board, led by Deputy Chair, Byron Grote. The appointment is subject to shareholder approval and, as such, will be added to the agenda of the Annual General Meeting being held in April 2023.
Different management positions
Noteboom, a Dutch citizen, is Chairman of Vopak’s Supervisory Board and a member of the Supervisory Board of Aegon. He also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Cancer Center Amsterdam. His former roles include CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management at Randstad, while he held different management positions at Dow Chemicals for nearly nine years.