Stefan Borgas

Stefan Borgas
Born	(1964-09-11) September 11, 1964 Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	President and CEO of Israel Chemicals Ltd. Group

Stefan Borgas (born September 11, 1964) is President and Chief Executive Officer of the ICL Group (Israel Chemicals Ltd.) based in Israel. Previously Borgas was the CEO of Lonza Group, Switzerland. Prior to his work at Lonza, Borgas spent 14 years with the BASF Group where he held several different positions of leadership in Fine Chemicals and Engineering Plastics in Germany, Ireland, China and the United States.^[1]

Education

Borgas has an undergraduate degree in business administration (Vordiplom) from the University of Saarland in Saarbrucken, Germany. In 1987^[2] he received an MBA (lic.oec HSG) from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.^[1]

Career

From January 1990 until January 1995 Borgas held a number of sales and marketing positions at BASF in Germany, Ireland, China and the United States. In 1995 he became the Group Manager of Logistics BASF Corp Plastic Materials in New Jersey, USA. In 1998 Borgas returned to Germany and took on the role of Director of Global Marketing, responsible for the vitamins business, a position that he held until January 2001. He was nominated Group VP Fine Chemicals Europa at BASF in January 2001 and subsequently Group VP Fine Chemicals North America.^[3]

From June 2004 until January 2012 Borgas was the CEO of the Swiss-based Fine Chemicals and Biopharma producer Lonza Group in Basel, Switzerland.^[2] During his tenure the company actively developed its portfolio to become a recognized global leader in the life science industries, namely pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing and microbial control.^[4]

Since April 21, 2009 he has been a non-executive director of Syngenta AG, one of the global leaders^[5] in crop protection and seeds.^[3]

On September 20, 2012 Borgas was appointed to be the president and CEO of ICL, a leading global manufacturer of products based on unique minerals.^[6][7] Since taking over leadership of ICL Borgas has been at the forefront of defining and refining ICL’s vision as a company that uses its expertise and continuously evolves to meet humanity’s essential needs in its three primary markets - agriculture, food and engineered materials,^[8] whose growth is being driven by global mega-trends including population growth, urbanization, and increased standards of living in developing markets. Mr. Borgas has also led the development and implementation of ICL’s “Next Step Forward Strategy”, an organization-wide effort launched in 2013 to develop the company’s core businesses and improve its position in the markets it serves by growing the company organically and through M&As, strengthening its efficiency and implementing enabling platforms to further globalize its business and empower its workforce as “ONE ICL.”^[9] Mr. Borgas is also dedicated to broadening ICL's global footprint, including diversifying and securing its sources of minerals globally^[10] and the - listing of ICL’s shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ICL).^[8][11] He also continues to strengthen ICL’s contribution to the communities in which it is active around the world.^[12]

Additional affiliations

Borgas was a member of the Board of the Swiss Management Gesellschaft (SMG.)^[1] and served as its President from 2010-2012. He was a board member of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce from January 2009 until January 2012 and a member of the Board of Science Industries, and the Association of Swiss Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries from 2004 to 2012.^[3] Since 2014 he has served as a Board member of the International Fertilizer Association.^[13]

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