Avantium Technologies Appoints Frank Roerink As Chief Financial Officer

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, January 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Avantium Technologies B.V. has announced today the appointment of Frank Roerink as Chief Financial Officer. Frank Roerink brings strong financial management experience to the company. During the last 12 years, he has held senior financial, commercial, treasury and M&A management positions at Unilever in both Europe and the USA.

Tom van Aken, Chief Executive Officer of Avantium said: “We are pleased to appoint Frank Roerink as Chief Financial Officer of Avantium. His extensive financial and international management experience make him a perfect addition to the Avantium management team. The company has made excellent progress over the past years and we are well positioned to further grow our business and be a leading provider of high-throughput experimentation capabilities to the pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries. We are confident that Frank will be instrumental in driving the company’s strategic plans forward whilst ensuring that the company will continue to operate under solid financial controls.”

About Avantium

Avantium Technologies is a privately held, innovation-based research company located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Avantium provides research services and tools to the chemicals and life science industries to enable companies to accelerate research & development. Avantium’s proprietary technology platforms and skill sets reduce the time-to-market of new products and processes and improve the economics and success rate of research.

For more information on Avantium please visit our web site at www.avantium.com

Source: Avantium Technologies B.V.

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