Altana hired Thomas Kostka after more than a decade at Henkel to head up its coprorate venture capital activities.

Thomas Kostka departed from chemicals and consumer products provider Henkel to become head of corporate venturing at Germany-based specialty chemicals producer Altana.

Kostka had spent more than a dozen years at Germany-based Henkel, most recently as senior investment manager for its adhesive technologies corporate venturing unit.

Altana hired Kostka after Florian Loebermann, the previous head of corporate venturing at the company, left in late 2019 to become managing director of 3D printer manufacturer DP…

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