ALTANA AG recently announced that its supervisory board has elected Matthias L. Wolfgruber, Ph.D., its new chairman. Wolfgruber, who has been a member of the supervisory board since March 2016, succeeds Klaus-Jürgen Schmieder, Ph.D., who left the board at the end of his term of office after reaching the age limit. Schmieder had been a member of the supervisory board since May 2001 and had served as its chairman since July 2012.

Frank Richter, Ph.D., who will become managing director of SKion GmbH on July 1, 2020, was newly elected to the ALTANA supervisory board. Ulrich Gajewiak and Susanne Klatten remain deputy chairpersons of the board.