Feike Sijbesma
Business Development
DSM
Italy
Biography
Feike Sijbesma (Dutch, male, 1959) studied medical (molecular) biology at the Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and business administration at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). In 1987, he joined the Industrial Pharmaceuticals division of Royal Gist-brocades NV, where he was responsible for strategic planning and business development. From 1990 to 1993, he was appointed the division’s Marketing & Sales Director. Thereafter (1993) he was given leadership of Savory Ingredients, later on a business unit of Gist-brocades’ Food Specialties Division. In 1995, he was made director of that division and joined the Gist-brocades’ Executive Committee. Following the acquisition by DSM in 1998, he became Director of the business group DSM Food Specialties.
Research Interest
Business development
