Stephan B. Tanda (Austrian) studied polymer engineering at the University of Leoben, Austria, and Business Administration at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Stephan started his career in 1991 as Business Segment Manager Europe - Nomex® /Kevlar® Protective Apparel with DuPont in Switzerland. After assignments in Finance and Operations with DuPont in the USA, he was appointed Global Business Director, based In Luxembourg. In 1998 Stephan became Director Corporate Planning and later Vice President Strategic Planning & New Business Development Agriculture, Nutrition and Bio-Based Materials for DuPont in the USA.

In 2000 he was appointed President of Protein Technologies International, Inc. and later President and CEO of The Solae Company, USA, a Joint Venture between DuPont and Bunge in the area of food innovation and food ingredient manufacturing. Stephan was instrumental in driving the creation and launch of the Solae® consumer ingredient brand concept for healthy foods.

In 2004 Stephan was appointed President and CEO of Freudenberg Nonwovens, a global group of industrial businesses, based in Weinheim, Germany, and Durham, USA.

He became a member of DSM’s Managing Board on 1 May 2007.

Since then, Stephan has been very active on the issue of Hidden Hunger. He represents DSM on the World Bank’s Global Action Plan as well as the Clinton Global Initiative, both organized to deliver nutrition security to the world’s most vulnerable.

Supervisory directorships and other positions held:

* board member of EuropaBio (European Biotechnology Industry Association)
* board member of SGCI (Swiss Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry Association)
* board member of ACC (American Chemistry Council)

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