New top manager (CP 1/2009)

Juan Carlos Ordonez has been named Group Vice President, Coatings for BASF in North America.

Juan Carlos Ordonez studied business administration at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He joined BASF in 1982, rising through a number of different management positions in North and South America and at corporate headquarters in Ludwigshafen.

Mr. Ordonez is known particularly as a successful manager of growth and restructuring processes, and has experience in a range of industries, including consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and coatings. His last position was as Vice President, Automotive Refinish and Industrial Coatings, working at the BASF North America headquarters in Southfield, Michigan.