Thomas Duletzki will take over as head of the Mergers & Acquisitions group function of LANXESS. He will succeed Marcel Beermann, who joined LANXESS’ High Performance Materials Business Unit on November 1, 2018 after having led the M&A group function for more than ten years. Duletzki has been working for LANXESS in the Mergers & Acquisitions group function since 2014 and has successfully managed numerous growth projects. Prior to this, the economist had gained extensive experience in portfolio management at Evonik and in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. In his new role, he will report directly to LANXESS CFO Michael Pontzen.