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Marco Ten Bruggencate

Commercial Vice President for Packaging and Specialty Plastics, EMEA

Marco is the Commercial Vice President for Packaging and Specialty Plastics for EMEA, and is based in Horgen, Switzerland. 

Prior to his current role, he was the Global Strategy Director for the Polyurethanes Portfolio 

Ten Bruggencate joined Dow in 2000 in the role of Commercial Manager, Spray Polyurethanes within PU Systems House. In 2007, he became Strategic Marketing Manager for Dow Building Solutions, before being appointed Product Director in 2011. 

As part of that role he became the Chairman of the European Extruded Polystyrene Insulation Producers Association, EXIBA and also represents Dow on the Board of Directors of the Joint Venture, Arabian Chemical Company Ltd, (Saudi Arabia). 

In 2012, Ten Bruggencate assumed the role of Business Director EMEAI for Dow Building Solutions and in 2014 was appointed Global Business Director for Dow Construction Chemicals. In 2016, he became the Global Business Director of Dow Building & Construction when Dow Construction Chemicals and Dow Building Solution were joined together.

Marco earned his Masters degree in Business Economics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.