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Lykele van der Broek
Lykele van der Broek
Member of the Bayer CropScience Executive Committee, Member of the Board of Management of Bayer CropScience AG and Chief Operating Officer
Lykele van der Broek is member of the Executive Committee of Bayer CropScience and member of the Board of Management of Bayer CropScience AG. Since November 2010, he is Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Van der Broek, born on July 30, 1954, is Dutch and graduated from the Agricultural University in Wageningen, the Netherlands, with a Master of Science degree specializing in Phytopathology and Business Administration. He started his career at the Plant Protection Service of the Netherlands. From 1984 to 1991, he acted as Deputy Director and Director of the Netherlands Inspection Service for Arboriculture (NAKB). He then held different positions in seed and plant biotech companies of the Royal VanderHave Group (later Advanta).
After joining the vegetable seed group Nunhems in 1999, he was responsible for the strategy and the Asia Pacific region. In 2001, he became CEO and retained this position after Bayer’s acquisition of Aventis CropScience in 2002. In 2003, he was appointed Head of BioScience at Bayer CropScience. Lykele van der Broek has been a member of the Bayer HealthCare Executive Committee since October 1, 2006, where he has been responsible for the Animal Health Division.
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