Effective January 1, 2024, Evy Hellinckx will become Azelis' new CEO for EMEA.
Azelis Group NV, a global innovation services provider in the specialty chemicals and food ingredients industries, has announced that Evy Hellinckx will be the new CEO for EMEA. Hellinckx will succeed Anna Bertona, who will take up her new role as Group CEO effective January 1, 2024.
Evy has held strategic leadership roles within Azelis since 2016. In her current role as Managing Director of Azelis Benelux, she has significantly expanded the company's presence in the region over the past two years. Prior to her role in Benelux, Evy was Strategy and Business Development Director for EMEA, where she was responsible for the core management of all segments in the region, and was instrumental in achieving some of the largest multi-country mandate gains in the region.
As part of the EMEA leadership team, Evy contributed to the development and implementation of key strategic programs in the region. Furthermore, she was chosen to provide support to the Group Executive Committee in developing the Azelis strategy for 2017-2023.
“I am thrilled to welcome Evy as she steps into her new role as CEO of EMEA. Both Anna Bertona, who will succeed me as Group CEO, and I have had the pleasure of working closely with Evy over the years. We are confident that her intimate familiarity with our principal base and customer needs in EMEA on one hand, and the value Azelis can bring to both on the other will allow her to continue growing the Group’s footprint in the region. We are excited to see the dynamism and perspectives she will bring to her new role”, says Dr. Hans Joachim Müller, Azelis Group CEO.
“I am grateful to Azelis, and to Jochen and Anna in particular, for all the opportunities I have been given over the years. I am excited to take on the challenges of my new role and look forward to working with the EMEA team, as well as the wider Group, to build on the impressive successes in recent years. Having been at Azelis for seven years, I have every confidence that we will continue to succeed in becoming the reference in our industry and creating value for all our stakeholders along the way”, concludes Hellinckx.