Kramer is CFO for Lanxess China.

Martin Kramer, currently head of the Lanxess Group Function Treasury, is to be the specialty chemicals group's new CFO for greater China. Kramer took up the position in Shanghai on April 1. In this function, which in future also includes responsibility for Hong Kong, Kramer will continue to report to Lanxess CFO Matthias Zachert. Kramer's successor as head of the Group Function Treasury is Christoph Koch, currently head of the corporate finance department within this group function. The present CFO in China, Marc Horn, is returning to group headquarters in Leverkusen to take up new duties.

Martin Kramer gained a degree in commerce in Cologne and started his career in 1991 in Bayer AG's corporate auditing department. Following a three-year assignment in Korea and a managerial assignment in Frankfurt, Kramer returned to Leverkusen at the end of 2000 as head of Business Planning and Administration in Bayer's Basic and Fine Chemicals Business Group. In July 2004, he took over the Group Function Treasury at Lanxess.

Christoph Koch studied business administration at Cologne and subsequently worked for Deutsche Bank in New York and Cologne. In March 2003, Koch moved to Kamps AG in Dusseldorf as treasurer. Since July 2004, he has been head of corporate finance at Lanxess.