New President Appointed for BASF’s Coatings Division
MÜENSTER, Germany — Uta Holzenkamp has been appointed the new president of BASF’s Coatings division, which employs around 11,000 people at more than 70 sites. The appointment became effective Jan. 1, 2022. After her studies of organic chemistry at the University of Münster, Germany, the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Ohio State University, she received her doctorate in 1996 from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
Holzenkamp joined BASF in 1997 and started her career in the pharmaceutical research department. After several positions at BASF in Germany and abroad, she has been Senior Vice President of the global Fuel and Lubricant Solutions business unit, which is part of the Performance Chemicals division of BASF, since April 2018.