DSM Nutritional Products announces a change in management of its Personal Care Business Unit. Ilona Haaijer who built and led the unit over the past four years has accepted another appointment within DSM.
She hands over to Wilfrid Gambade, former director of the DSM Business Unit Composite Resins. Wilfrid Gambade becomes senior vice president and member of the executive committee, DSM Nutritional Products, reporting to Christoph Goppelsroeder, president & CEO, DSM Nutritional Products. Wilfrid Gambade, a French national, holds a degree in chemistry from ITECH, Lyon/F. He started his career in sales and marketing and soon acquired experience in the cosmetics industry. Gambade worked for Ciba Specialty Chemicals, among others as North American sales head and business responsible for the cosmetics branch. Later, he was global business director at Huntsman where he built a new segment organisation. In 2009, he joined Royal DSM as business director Europe & Global Market in the Business Unit Composite Resins. In 2011 he was appointed to head that Business Unit.
