Effective 1st July, 2022 Namitesh Roy Choudhury assumes the role of Vice Chairman and Managing Director at LANXESS India. He also takes on the responsibility of Region Head for India, a company statement has notified.
In this new role, he will represent the businesses of LANXESS India to the global organisation, and will report to Dr Anno Borkowsky, member of the Board of Management and head of all the four regions, globally, the statement said.
Further, according to the statement, Roy Choudhury has been the Executive Director since 1st October, 2021 and Vice President, Industrial and Environmental Affairs, LANXESS India, since 2007. He moved to the LANXESS India organisation in 2004 after the carve out from Bayer as the Head of Production, Technology, Safety and Environment (PTSE) and Capital Investment.
Prior to joining LANXESS, he spent 16 years at Bayer in various departments such as plant engineering, central engineering and energy and environment projects. He also spent three years in China executing projects for Bayer. Prior to joining Bayer, he also worked with the Tata Group in the beginning of his career.
“On behalf of the entire Board of Management, I would like to thank Namitesh Roy Choudhury for his excellent work to date and wish him every success in his new tasks,” said Borkowsky.