Michel Houmard

Responsible for the China & Mongolia Operations including : • 10 factories spread across China and 2 OEM plants. • 7 functions as production, maintenance, EHS, QC, QA, purchasing and logistic. • Yearly output of 300’000 tons and operational budget of about $ 200 millions. • 7 direct reports. Reporting to the Executive Vice President China.

Responsible for the preparation of the operation including : • 8 manufacturing plants, 1 utility plant, maintenance and quality control, with a total of 25 production lines and a yearly output of 120’000 tons of silicones. • Process design and layout of workshops, functional analysis and simulation of automatism and control loops as well as process safety studies. • Technical support for the purchase of 1000 equipments and 5000 instruments (datasheets, technical agreements with suppliers, bidding) as wel

Responsible for the production including : • A dyes finishing plant and a chemicals mixing plant. Team of 55 people. • The optimization of a dyes & optical brightener synthesis plant. Team of 60 people. • A process development team. • The deployment of the Clariant Process Improvement (CPIP) strategy. • 4 direct reports. Reported to China General Manager and to the Division Industrial Director.

Responsible for scale-up projects including : • Scale-up of processes and product launches into production, troubleshooting for production. • Small scale production for small volume products. • 3 laboratories (QC, nanofiltration, high pressure reactions). • 4 direct reports. Reported to Pilot Plant Director and R&D Head. • Pilot plant consisting in 35 reactors, 2 filter presses, nutsches, mills, 6 reactors cascade (continuous flow reactors), nanofiltration, spray dryer, and distillation.

Activities and Societies: Beta-Gamma-Sigma Member

Grade: summa cum laude ETHZ was ranked top five in the world in 2011 in Chemistry --> http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectChemistry2011.html Thesis: Optimization of Simulated Moving Bed Reactors, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) of Zurich, Switzerland.

Grade: Summa cum laude Thesis: Molecular Imprinting in Polyacrylamid Gel, University of Applied Science of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1995. In collaboration with Ciba-Geigy (Marly), Switzerland.