Marco ten Bruggencate
President, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India
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Marco ten Bruggencate
President, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India
Marco ten Bruggencate is President of Dow Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India. In this role, he is responsible for designing and leading the growth agenda for this critical and dynamic region.
Marco joined Dow in 2000 as Commercial Manager in PU System House. He has since held leadership positions across several Dow businesses and geographies, including Dow Building Solutions, Dow Construction Chemicals, and Dow Polyurethanes. Prior to his current role, Marco served as the Commercial Vice President for Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) for EMEA. P&SP is widely recognized as the leading supplier of polyethylene resins and functional polymers used in a wide variety of applications for key growth markets like food packaging, supply chain packaging, health and hygiene, infrastructure, and consumer goods. In this capacity he was responsible for the growth, profitability as well as the transformation of P&SP to a circular offering at a lower carbon footprint.
Marco represents Dow on the Board of Directors of Sadara Chemical Company, a joint venture between Dow and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). Currently he serves as President of Plastics Europe, the pan-European association of plastics manufacturers, with a focus on driving circularity and decarbonization throughout the plastics industry.
Before joining Dow, Marco held several roles in banking and a start-up. Marco holds a Master’s Degree in business economics from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a vocal and active advocate for inclusion and diversity and is co-chair in Dow’s Women’s Inclusion Network, as well as the business sponsor for DEN EMEAI, Dow’s disability network. He is based in Horgen, Switzerland.