Peterson Named Bayer CropScience's Chair of Board of Management

By Jim.Robinson|May 4, 2010

Sandra E. Peterson is to be named the new Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer CropScience AG. This was decided by the Supervisory Board of the Bayer subgroup at its meeting on Tuesday. Peterson, a U.S. citizen, will join the subgroup’s Board of Management on July 1, 2010 and succeed Prof. Dr. h.c. Friedrich Berschauer as Chairman effective October 1, 2010.

“Sandra Peterson has been a successful division head in the Bayer Group for the past five years, having already demonstrated her leadership qualities in various sectors of industry. We are therefore convinced that she has the right profile to successfully lead the CropScience business,” said Werner Wenning, Chairman of the Bayer AG Board of Management.

Peterson’s successor as a member of the Bayer HealthCare Executive Committee and Head of the Medical Care Division will be 46-year-old Alan Main, a British citizen, who is currently Head of the Europe Region in Bayer HealthCare’s Consumer Care Division.

Wenning praised the achievements of Berschauer, who will be 60 in June and is taking retirement after 30 years of valuable service to Bayer: “Professor Berschauer has further strengthened the position of Bayer CropScience as an innovation leader in conventional crop protection and driven the expansion of our seed and biotechnology businesses. “We thank him for his great commitment and wish him well for the future.”

In addition, the Supervisory Board of Bayer CropScience appointed Achim Noack to the company’s Board of Management effective June 1, 2010. As of October 1, 2010, Noack will assume responsibility for Industrial Operations & QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment) in succession to Dr. Wolfgang Welter, who will retire on September 30, 2010 after many years of valuable service. Effective June 1, 2010, Noack will be succeeded as Managing Director of Bayer Technology Services GmbH by Dr. Dirk Van Meirvenne, currently Head of Production and Technology Isocyanates at Bayer MaterialScience AG.