Dr Heidi Grön is a chemical engineer by background, with 20 years of experience in the chemicals industry.
Dr Grön has taken chemical products and processes from a market concept through to full-scale production in new chemical refineries in Germany, US and China.
Since 2007 Dr Grön has been a senior executive with Evonik, one of the largest specialty chemicals companies in the world with a market capitalisation of €14B and 32,000 employees.