As Chief Executive Officer, Bernard Hasson brings to the company his strong background in chemicals industry, business development and management. His efforts are focused on increasing human capital and business & partnership development. Before founding SpecialChem, Bernard Hasson spent 8 years with Elf Atochem where he led an active international career. He began his career in Germany where he was in charge of technology watch and environmental communication. Subsequently he managed the business development of plastics in the emerging countries of Central Europe. Then, as Project Manager, he was in charge of the creation of a petrochemical plant in Poland.

Bernard holds a MBA from H.E.C. Business School and speaks five languages fluently.
He can be reached at bernard.hasson@specialchem.com.

As Chief Operating Officer, Christophe Cabarry brings to SpecialChem unique international strategic vision of the chemical industry as well as top level connections based on his 8-year industry experience. He is in charge of investor relations and partnerships at SpecialChem. He developed particular competences in strategic planning, organisation and customer support. Christophe Cabarry began his career with Elf Atochem, as Supply Chain Manager in a new compounding plant in Eastern Germany. Then he was in charge of implementing the commercial and industrial strategy of Elf Atochem Vinyl Division in Central and Eastern Europe. Two years before founding SpecialChem, Christophe Cabarry was appointed to the department of strategic planning at Elf Atochem. He was in charge of competition watch, evaluating industrial investments as well as international M&A opportunities.

Christophe Cabarry holds a Master Degree from the Ecole Centrale de Paris and an MBA from the ESC Toulouse Business School. He speaks four languages fluently.
He can be reached at christophe.cabarry@specialchem.com.

As VP, Jan is responsible for business development and the growth of the Specialchem4Coatings platform. He has extensive background in the coatings industry and brings technical expertise and a strategic vision on the industry to the company. Jan started his career as a chemist, where he built a solid understanding of the coatings industry. He moved later on to commercial roles and before joining SpecialChem he was a member of the executive committee at Elementis Specialties as Global Product Manager for the Specialties business. Jan holds a degree in Chemical Engineering supplemented with a degree in Marketing and an MBA.
You can reach him at jan.weernink@specialchem.com.

Vincent Cadoret has strong experience in information technology, including artificial intelligence, information retrieval, search engines technology and project management. He is in charge of the technological division of SpecialChem.
Vincent Cadoret began his career by leading a research project on utterance analysis in a dialog system. As Product Manager, he managed a team in order to develop terminology and nomenclature builder with Lexiquest, a company with 20 years experience in the area of natural language processing for search engines. In 1997 he joined Dalet, (a global provider of professional software for traditional and new media broadcasters), as project manager for multimedia broadcasting.

Vincent Cadoret completed a PhD at the France Telecom Research Center (CNET).
He can be reached at vincent.cadoret@specialchem.com.