Tammo Boinowitz is set to become managing director of BYK-Chemie GmbH, the largest division of the specialty chemicals group ALTANA, as of January 1, 2021. After a two-month training and transitional phase, he will also become the president of BYK.

He succeeds Christoph Schlünken, who has headed the division on an interim basis since October of last year in parallel with his responsibilities on ALTANA’s management board. Boinowitz has many years of international management experience in specialty chemicals. He holds a PhD in chemistry and has held various management positions at Evonik since 2008. He currently heads the Care Solutions business unit as senior vice president.

Boinowitz studied chemistry in Hamburg and received his doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 1995. At the same time, he studied economics at Open University of Hagen. He then joined the former Th. Goldschmidt AG company in Essen, which is now part of Evonik. After holding various positions in research and development and application technology, he was global technical director of the current Comfort & Insulation business unit from 2003 to 2006.

After managing strategic growth projects for the Consumer Specialties business unit and Corporate Development of Evonik Industries, he was appointed head of the Comfort & Insulation business unit in December 2011. From 2014 to 2018 he headed the Personal Care business unit.

“I am pleased that, with Tammo Boinowitz, we have been able to gain a real industry expert with outstanding technical and leadership skills for our largest division,” says Schlünken. “I am sure that he will continue BYK’s success story together with our employees.”