R. Helmut Rupp

Dr. Rupp holds a PhD degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Karlsruhe and completed a Program for Executive Development at IMD / Lausanne. During his professional career, he served in several scientific, technical and managerial positions. He started at Hoechst AG/Frankfurt, a large diversified chemical group manufacturing a wide range of basic and specialty chemicals including agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. He was delegated as Director R&D to Mulund/Bombay/India for several years. Subsequently, he was responsible as Director for Fine and Intermediate Chemicals before he took over the worldwide Corporate R&D function of the Hoechst Group. He then moved to Lonza / Switzerland where he served as Dty.CEO and CSO for several years. He was Co-Founder and Board Member of a Management Buyout, AllessaChemie in Frankfurt Fechenheim/Germany. In his last assignment, he build the contract R&D organization Acoris in Pune/India. Dr. Rupp served on the board of several start up companies e.g. Uniax, Vaperma and CBrite and presently is Director in Deepak Nitrite Ltd. , a manufacturer of basic, fine and intermediate as well as performance chemicals, headquartered in Vadodera/India.