Henkel AG & Co. KGaA announced that effective February 1, 2023, Mark Dorn (49), currently Senior Vice President at Henkel with responsibility for the Adhesive Technologies business in the Asia-Pacific region, will be appointed Executive Vice President and member of the Management Board responsible for the Adhesive Technologies business unit. He succeeds Jan-Dirk Auris, who will leave the company at the end of January 2023 after around 35 years of successful service.

Mark Dorn started his career at Henkel in 1992. At Cognis, the spin-off of Henkel's chemicals division at the end of 1999, he held various management positions including sales and supply chain, marketing, and strategy. In 2010, he became head of the Formulation Additives strategic business unit at BASF and spent several years in Hong Kong before becoming Senior Vice President of internal management consulting at the group's headquarters in Ludwigshafen.

He returned to Henkel in 2019 and has since been responsible for the entire Adhesive Technologies business in the Asia-Pacific region and globally for the Craftsmen, Construction and Professional business area. He also serves as President for Henkel in the Asia-Pacific region. Mark Dorn trained as an industrial clerk and holds an MBA degree from the IESE Business School in Barcelona.

He was born on January 31, 1973, is married and has one child.