Reynald Chevalier

Manager Product and Application Development - Electric&Electronic Appliances and Centre of Excellence for Pigments&MBs - Frankfurt - Germany • PAD: Development of new formulations based on polypropylene in order to fulfill our clients' requests (Lifetime improvement, Aesthetic surface improvement...) • CoE Pigments&MBs: Management of our producers/suppliers portfolio and technical qualification of Pigments&MBs

• lead the design and synthesis efforts of new internal donors (organic chemistry) for Ziegler-Natta catalysts in order to find phthalate-free ZN catalysts - 3 patent applications

• lead the design and synthesis efforts of new Metallocenes and beyond Metallocenes catalysts (organic and organometallic chemistry) - 12 patent applications and co-write 3 publications - Manage a project at the occasion of Basell annual Global Safety Day (2012) – Received the “Goal Zero Hero” award for EMEA - Manage our external R&D Partnerships (Austria, Russia and Canada) - Industrial Contact Partner for DPI meetings (Polyolefin Chemistry - Amsterdam)

• Lead the innovative development of new Racemoselective Syntheses for Metallocenes type catalysts – Yields increased up to 5 times in comparison to previous process – This patent was immediately applied in production (400 kg/year) • Manage the optimization of Metallocenes recipes and transfer to pilot plant

Synthesis of new potent ruthenium complexes for the catalytic addition of aromatic C-H and C-X bonds into olefins in cooperation with Rhodia Silicones

Development of a very efficient synthesis of a biological compound permitting its scale-up – Total Yield increased by 20%.

Total synthesis of biologically important oligosaccharides involved in auto-immune neuropathic diseases (Total synthesis/50 steps/1 year), Crohn’s disease and Candidoses Infections