Calgary, Alberta, Canada
March 26, 2009
Kamel Beliazi, currently head of
Bayer CropScience in Mexico, will be moving north to Calgary to
take on new challenges as President and CEO of
Bayer CropScience Inc.,
Canada on July 1, 2009.
Beliazi takes over from Hartmut van Lengerich, who has been
promoted to a new role leading a global crop strategy unit
focused on cereals, oilseeds and sugar beets at Bayer’s
headquarters in Monheim, Germany.
Before spending the last four years growing the Bayer
CropScience product portfolio and business in Mexico, Beliazi
saw the breadth and depth of Bayer’s product pipeline first-hand
as Global Product Manager for Insecticides and then Global
Product Manager for Herbicides. In the 1990s, Beliazi held a
series of positions with Bayer CropScience and its legacy
companies in Portugal, France and Vietnam.
“Kamel brings a wealth of experience in crop protection from
around the world,” says van Lengerich. “In a global economy
where Canadian soybean farmers watch cropping practices in
Brazil and Prairie canola growers look to markets in Europe,
Kamel’s insight and leadership will be a tremendous asset to the
Canadian organization.”
Beliazi says he looks forward to meeting with Bayer CropScience
customers and employees soon and is excited about building on
Bayer’s impressive record in bringing new modes of action,
technology and seed traits to Canadian growers.
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the
fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer
CropScience AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of
about EUR 6.4 billion (2008), is one of the world’s leading
innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop
protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant
biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of
products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable
agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer
CropScience has a global workforce of about 18,000 and is
represented in more than 120 countries. |
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