领导团队

团队

Luc van Ravenstein

首席执行官

加入海名斯:2012 年 1 月

Luc has a proven track record of delivering innovation, growth, and efficiency during his 13 years at Elementis. He has led the Company's largest business segment, Performance Specialties (which combines the segments previously known as Global Coatings, Energy and Talc), for seven years. 他曾在转型计划中主管全球涂料业务部,推动执行该部门的增长策略。

Luc 在海名斯的最初职务是负责个人护理品和表面活性剂业务,此前还曾在特种化学品公司 Croda 担任领导职务。

Luc 拥有埃因霍芬理工大学化学与化学工程学硕士学位和工程学专业博士学位。

Kath Kearney-Croft

首席财务官

加入海名斯:2025 年 11 月

Kath was appointed CFO-Designate on November 2025 and became the Elementis Group CFO on 1 January 2026.

Kath is an accomplished CFO who has over 20 years of experience in a range of CFO and senior finance roles in the UK and US with Learning Technologies Group, SIG, Vitec, Rexam, and BOC Group. 

Kath brings a strong track record of leading finance functions at international public companies and a wealth of expertise across industries, which will be highly valuable to deliver our Elevate Elementis strategy. 

Kath is a Chartered Management Accountant with a degree in Business and Management Studies, and an MBA from the Manchester Business School.

Stijn Dejonckheere

Chief Commercial Officer

加入海名斯:2007 年 11 月

Stijn was appointed Chief Commercial Officer in May 2025 and leads the Personal Care and Performance Specialties businesses.

Stijn grew into a key and widely respected leader of the company during his time at Elementis. He builds high-performing cross-functional teams and always demonstrated the right balance of strategic, operational and customer focus. He led the Personal Care business from 2020 to 2025 and set the strategy that enabled the accelerated growth in this segment.

Prior to that, he held leadership positions in Personal Care, Coatings and Pharma at Elementis, having previously held senior commercial roles at Capsugel (now Lonza) and Barentz.

Stijn 拥有根特大学生物工程硕士学位和蒙彼利埃高等农学院农业经营管理硕士学位,并且修习了沃顿商学院高管发展课程 (Executive Development Program)。

Colin Smith

SVP Global Manufacturing

加入海名斯:2002 年 5 月

Colin was appointed Senior VP Global Manufacturing in June 2025 and is responsible for global manufacturing, health safety and environment (HSE), quality and our capital investment program.

Colin brings over 30 years of experience in chemical manufacturing, having started his career as a graduate trainee at British Aerospace. During his early career, he managed various high-hazard processes related to the production of energetic materials for military applications – an experience that shaped his strong focus on process safety and HSE management.

Since joining Elementis, Colin has held various leadership roles at site, regional and global levels covering manufacturing and continuous improvement. This has given him an extensive experience in our manufacturing processes and capabilities, enabling him to improve operational efficiency across the business.

Colin holds a BEng in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Strathclyde. 

Joe Lupia

全球技术高级副总监

加入海名斯:2019 年 1 月

Joe 于 2019 年加入 Elementis,负责全球研发和产品管理。他拥有丰富的商务经验,因此能够确保为我们的创新产品线带来技术和财务上的成功。Joe 负责与业务负责人合作开发可提高客户产品性能的新技术,产品性能与我们合作伙伴对产品质量、可持续发展和效率的需求息息相关。Joe 拥有 30 年的化学行业经验。加入我们之前,他在巴斯夫 (BASF) 就职,并在他的 24 年任期内担任过许多不同的技术和商业职务。Joe 拥有美国西东大学有机化学博士学位。

Chris Shepherd

首席人力资源官

加入海名斯:2017 年 11 月

Chris 领导集团的人力资源和传播职能部门,负责人才、继任、人力资源运营、奖励计划和内部沟通。Chris 专注于在全公司范围内贯彻企业文化和价值观,培养内部人才,并使我们的全球人力资源流程标准化。Chris 拥有 20 年的全球人力资源经验,曾在美国和英国的多家私人控股上市工作就职,他最初 12 年的职业生涯始于制造和供应链领域。Chris 拥有英国利物浦大学机械工程学硕士学位。

Hannah Constantine

Group General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Company Secretary

加入海名斯:August 2025

Hannah is responsible for all legal and compliance matters across Elementis and is the Group Company Secretary. Hannah also serves as the Group’s Chief Compliance Officer and chairs the Ethics and Compliance Council. 

Hannah is an experienced lawyer with a strong track record of delivering pragmatic legal and strategic counsel across a broad range of sectors – from technology and defence to retail and leisure. Before joining Elementis, Hannah held a number of senior roles at Smiths Group Plc, a FTSE 100 listed industrial engineering company, including a period living and working in Singapore with responsibility for the Asia Pacific region, and most recently serving as General Counsel for Corporate & M&A.

Hannah holds an MA Cantab in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge, and the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course qualifications from BPP Law School.

Eric Waldmann

Chief Procurement Officer

加入海名斯:2007 年 2 月

Eric 负责管理货物和服务采购相关的所有活动,包括采购整合、全球不同办公地点的流程和程序标准化、确保供应商符合我们的 ESG 框架。

在铬业务部于 2023 年拆分出售给 Yildirim 前,Eric 是此业务部负责人。在海名斯任职的 16 年间,他先后在财务部门和采购部门担任过多个高级管理职位,为各部门带来丰富的商业、财务和采购经验。

Eric 拥有巴克内尔大学工商管理学士学位和维拉诺瓦大学工商管理硕士学位。