BASF has appointed Kurt Bock to succeed Jurgen Hambrecht as chief executive and chairman of the company's board of executive directors. Martin Brudermuller will become vice chairman. Both appointments take effect following BASF's annual meeting on May 6, 2011. "Kurt Bock is an entrepreneur with an extensive international experience," says Eggert Voscherau, chairman of the supervisory board of BASF SE. Other appointments to the board will be made in early 2011, BASF says. Bock joined BASF's finance division in 1985 and has been CFO and a member of the BASF board since 2003.
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