Jim Kavanagh has been appointed as managing director of AkzoNobel Industrial Coatings.
Kavanagh will lead the strategic course throughout a various portfolio, which incorporates wooden finishes and wooden adhesives.
Kavanagh joined AkzoNobel in 1990 as a growth chemist within the firm’s protecting coatings enterprise. Throughout his 32 years with the corporate, he has held numerous positions, together with roles inside product administration and advertising. From 2000, he labored internationally as a normal supervisor and industrial director primarily based in China, Africa, and the UAE. Most lately, he was accountable for main the steel coatings enterprise in EMEA as regional industrial director.
Commenting on his new function, Kavanagh says: “I’m very proud to be main a enterprise with so many gifted people and groups throughout such a various and spectacular portfolio. I’m wanting ahead to additional creating our capabilities and constructing on our main international positions.”
