Manny Katz is being appointed Managing Director of the Hydrogen Peroxide business unit of French chemical manufacturer Arkema effective 1st July 2015.
Katz graduated in Chemical Engineering at Rutgers College of Engineering in Piscataway (NJ). He began his career at M&T Chemicals, a subsidiary of the Elf group, as Process Development Engineer. In 1990 he joined Elf Atochem where he held a number of commercial functions. In 2000, he became Regional Group President for Thiochemicals and in 2006 for Fluorochemicals in North America. From 2009 to 2011, he was Vice President Goods & Services Procurement & Supply Chain at Arkema Inc. Since 2011, he had been Global Group President of the Organic Peroxides business unit.