Professional career

Dr. Christoph Kleiner will join the EMS Group as member of Executive Management as of August 6, 2020. From 1990 to 1997, Dr. Christoph Kleiner held various leadership positions in research & development and production of polymer additives with Ciba Geigy. From 1998 to 2007 he was responsible for the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients in Switzerland and the USA for the pharmaceutical company Siegfried and latterly for strategic projects and acquisitions of the Siegfried Group. Following this, Dr. Kleiner joined Quadrant as technical director of Quadrant EPP Europe, before becoming Managing Director EPP Global Operations after the take-over by Mitsubishi Chemical and holding responsibility for all worldwide production locations of Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials until June 2020.