Rainer Bechtold

Rainer Bechtold has extensive experience in marketing and business development. Rainer is currently working at Clariant as the Global Head of Marketing for Polymer Solutions and Global Portfolio Manager for Additives. Prior to that, they were the Global Head of Marketing and Business Development for Plastics at Clariant. Before joining Clariant, Bechtold was the Global Head of Marketing for Strategic Growth Programs and Strategy at Cabot Corporation, where they focused on market-driven innovation and sustainable profitable growth in the plastics industry. Rainer also held the position of Global Head of Marketing Excellence at Clariant, where they led marketing organization structure and capability building across various industries. Bechtold has previous experience at Eastman Chemical Company as a Director of Global Marketing and Regional Business Director, and at W1 Limited and DataPromo GmbH as a Client Service Director and Managing Director, respectively.

Rainer Bechtold's education history includes attending the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2013 to study Global Perspectives and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in the same year to study High Performance Leadership. In 2012, Rainer also completed the Great Manager Program at GALLUP and the Understanding and Managing Behavioral Differences program at Tracom Group. There is no information provided about Rainer's education prior to 2012. In 2017, Rainer obtained a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from TÜV SüD.