Bayer CropScience appoints Lykele van der Broek Chief Operating Officer

Bayer CropScience will establish a Chief Operating Officer (COO) function to further develop customer-based solutions in its regional Crop Protection and BioScience operations. Effective November 1, 2010, Lykele van der Broek (56), currently Head of the Animal Health Division at Bayer Health Care, will take over the new COO function. This was decided by the Bayer CropScience Supervisory Board at its meeting yesterday. At the same time, the Bayer Subgroup will bring its strategy and business management functions together into the newly-named platform “Strategy & Business Management” to be headed by Dr. Rüdiger Scheitza (57), currently in charge of Portfolio Management