Profile :

Corrado Simontacchi is Corporate Purchasing Manager, Goods and Services for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific at Huntsman. He is based at the Huntsman Headquarter at Everberg, Belgium.

He is a chartered accountant with a business studies degree from the L. Bocconi University of Milan in Italy. Studies at the Economics for Business Leaders – Oxford Business University Summer School (Merton College, Oxford, UK) and Strategy formulation and decisions trough simulation at the SDA Bocconi (University L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy) complete his business education profile.

Prior to his current Corporate Purchasing role, Corrado was EAME Finance Manager of the Huntsman Polyurethanes Divison. He spent twenty years working for this Division (previously, ICI Polyurethanes) in a variety of roles including Marketing Manager, Strategic Planning Manager, Customer Service Manager, SAP Project Manager and IT Manager.

These roles included work on European and global business strategy and restructuring, acquisitions and alliances, preparation of some of the major Company’s capital investments, global supply chain process development, and global SAP and IT strategy implementation.

Associations memberships :

Since 1996 Corrado is member of the Oxford University Business Economics Association.

Corrado is Board member of the Belgium Association of Travel Management (BATM)

Personal interests :

He is married with one son and is keen on skiing and playing squash.