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Patrick Thomas: New CEO of Bayer MaterialScience AG

04 Jan 2007 - Patrick Thomas (49) was appointed Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer MaterialScience AG on January 1, 2007. Thomas succeeds Dr. Hagen Noerenberg, who ended his active employment with the Bayer Group as planned at the end of 2006.
 
Patrick Thomas was born on September 30, 1957 in Portsmouth, U.K. He graduated from Oxford University with an engineering degree in 1979. The same year he began his career with British chemicals company Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). Until 1989 he held a number of positions with ICI Pharmaceuticals and Agrochemicals (which became Zeneca in 1993) in the U.K. In 1989 Thomas transferred to Belgium to join ICI Polyurethanes, undertaking various management assignments until in 1993 he was named Regional Director for Europe, Africa & the Middle East. Four years later he was appointed global CEO.
 
In 1999, Thomas joined U.S. chemicals company Huntsman Corporation as President of the Polyurethanes, Performance and Advanced Materials Divisions, also based in Belgium. In 2003 he was named Corporate Executive Vice President of Huntsman MatlinPatterson. After a brief spell as a management consultant for various private-equity companies he joined Bayer MaterialScience on August 15, 2006.
 
Patrick Thomas is Chairman of the Oxford University Business Economics Programme Board (OUBEP) and Lecturer at The Windsor Leadership Trust.