Plenary
Speaker
Biographical Sketch
Professor Achim Noack
Bayer
CropScience, Germany
Achim
Noack – Member of the Board of Management and designated Head of Industrial
Operations & QHSE* Achim Noack
(50) was appointed to the company’s Board of Management effective June 1, 2010.
As of October 1, 2010, Noack has assumed responsibility for Industrial
Operations & QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment) in succession
to Dr. Wolfgang Welter, who retired in September 2010.
Achim Noack was born in Hamburg
on July 17, 1959. After studying chemical engineering at the University of Dortmund,
he joined Bayer AG in 1986 as a process engineer with the former Crop
Protection Business Group. After five years he transferred to Engineering in
the Central Technology Division, moving after two years to Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A., to serve as Project Manager
for the Crop Protection Business Group.
Noack returned to Germany
in 1997 as Plant Manager for the Organic Chemicals Business Group in
Krefeld-Uerdingen. Two years later he was placed in charge of engineering
support for agrochemical active ingredients in Germany. In 2000 he was named Head
of the Corporate Engineering Department and, shortly thereafter, Chief
Technology Officer of Bayer Corporation, U.S.A.,
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After the establishment of
Bayer Technology Services (BTS) in 2002, he headed the Bayer Technology
Services Americas office. Noack was appointed the company’s Managing Director
in mid-2005. In this function Noack pursued a systematic growth strategy, continuing
the development of the former Central Technology Division into a flexible,
customer-focused service provider.
*QHSE = Quality, Health, Safety and
Environment
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