Patrick Bogaerts  Vice President Sales - Europe

Patrick Bogaerts, Vice President of Sales for Europe, leads the customer interface in Europe with the oversight for MEAF and the Indian Subcontinent.
 
Bogaerts joined Dow in 1989 in sales for Chemicals and Performance Chemicals.

Prior to his current role he was Sales Director Northern Europe and Operate Leader EUR/IMEA for PP&C; Marketing Manager for PO and derivatives; and Account Executive in Dow Automotive.

Bogaerts and his wife Thessa along with daughters Louize and Josephine live in Brasschaat near Antwerp, Belgium. As an International Hockey Umpire he has refereed games on five continents. He still plays in the local league but definitively trade in his hockey stick for golf clubs one day.

Bogaerts holds both a legal and economics master’s degree from the Catholic University of Louvain.

March 2008