Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> June 3, 1999
'AL' ALBERT P.L. STROUCKEN was appointed President and Chief Executive
Officer of H.B. Fuller Company and a member of the company's Board of
Directors effective April 16, 1998. He came to H.B. Fuller from Bayer
AG, a $32-billion diversified international chemical and pharmaceutical
company headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, where his last position
was General Manager for its Inorganics Division. Born and raised in
Nieuwenhagen, the Netherlands, Mr. Stroucken joined Bayer in 1969,
participating in a four-year intensive executive training program, which
places high-potential individuals in rotational international job
assignments. His experience with Bayer was concentrated in a variety of
chemical divisions, covering product lines such as coating resins,
organic and inorganic pigments, dyestuffs, silicones, enamels and
ceramics, specialty metals, photovoltaics, etc. Prior to his last
assignment, he was Corporate Executive Vice President for Bayer
Corporation in the United States and the President of its Industrial
Chemicals Division. In the latter position, he was also responsible for
re-engineering the business, leading a major software implementation,
and steering diversity and productivity initiatives. In his most recent
assignment, Mr. Stroucken was instrumental in a major restructuring of
Bayer's Inorganic Chemicals Division, a $1.8-billion business with 6,000
employees. Mr. Stroucken is fluent in five languages (English, Dutch,
German, Flemish, and French), and also has a working knowledge of
Spanish. He and his wife, Gerda , have two grown sons, Michael and
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