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Symrise Appoints Michael Friede President, Scent & Care

Friede will take over the department, which was ad-interim headed by CEO Dr. Jean-Yves Parisot.

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By: Lianna Albrizio

Associate Editor

The Supervisory Board of Symrise AG has appointed Michael Friede to the executive board.

Friede will take over as president of the scent & care segment, which was ad-interim headed by CEO Dr. Jean-Yves Parisot.

The scent & care segment, comprising Symrise’s activities in fragrance applications, aroma molecules and cosmetic ingredients, generates annual sales of a reported 2 billion euros, company officials said.

Tenures at Brenntag and Beyond

Friede has been a member of the management board of Brenntag SE, Essen, Germany, since 2023, where he served as CEO of Brenntag Specialties leading the Life Science and Material Science specialty chemicals segments globally. Previously, he was a member of the executive committee of Akzo Nobel NV Amsterdam, the Netherlands; executive vice president at Covestro AG, Germany; and CEO and president of Covestro Elastomers SAS in France.

He began his career at Bayer AG, where he held various management positions in Leverkusen, Germany and Pittsburgh, PA. He is also supervisory board member of Pearl Polyurethane Systems LLC, a leading producer of polyurethane systems, headquartered in Dubai.

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