Apricum wins former senior executives from Mitsubishi Chemical and Q-Cells for its advisor team.

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Apricum further expands its worldwide advisor network by welcoming Mr. Masataka Asano, based in Japan, as well as Dr. Joachim Reiß, based in Germany, as new team members.

• Mr. Asano is a chemical-industry veteran, having spent most of his career at Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. During his career over four decades, he held various posts in plant management as well as process development, as president for a Mitsubishi Chemical subsidiary in Indonesia and in other senior executive positions, including Managing Director and board member of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. More recently, he has been advising chemical and renewables companies as well as a bank. Furthermore, he holds board positions in two venture capital-financed bio- and nanotechnology businesses. We are glad that Mr. Asano will leverage his vast industry know-how and extensive network throughout the Japanese industry to help Apricum gather relevant data from Japanese market players.

• Dr. Joachim Reiß joins Apricum as an expert in photovoltaics, business development and corporate strategy. As former Vice President Market Development with marketing and sales responsibility for Asia, South-America, Australia and Africa and as Director Strategic Business Development with responsibility for M&A and thin-film portfolio companies at Q-Cells SE, he has gathered an extraordinary combination of broad business and market development experience. Furthermore, he has a deep technological understanding of photovoltaics from more than 15 years of scientific and industrial experience. Previous to his career at Q-Cells SE, Dr. Reiß was Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company. He holds a PhD in Physics, having worked on thin-film solar cells at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Berlin. We gladly welcome Dr. Reiß as a new member of the Apricum team.