Hans Van Bylen Appointed to Ecolab Board; Ulrich Lehner Retires

2007-02-26 | 08:47

Ecolab Inc. announced that its board of directors has appointed Hans Van Bylen to fill the vacancy created by Ulrich Lehner’s retirement from the Ecolab Board. Mr. Van Bylen, 45, is executive vice president, Cosmetics/Toiletries of Henkel KGaA of Düsseldorf, Germany, and a member of the management board of Henkel KGaA. There are currently 12 directors on the Ecolab board. Prof. Lehner said that his decision to retire from the Ecolab board was due to his announced planned retirement under Henkel KGaA’s mandatory policy in 2008. He served on the Ecolab board for six years. “We thank Prof. Lehner for his valued service on the Board and to our company,” said Douglas M. Baker, Jr., Ecolab’s chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer. “We wish him well.”