Arkema announced two appointments in its Bostik Specialty Adhesives business: Rodrigo Lacerda as Director of the Construction and Consumer Division, and Fernando Accioly Menezes as Director of Strategy and International Coordination. Both joined the Group on July 8th 2019. In 1998, Rodrigo Lacerda, joined Portokoll, as Managing Director. In 2000, he joined the PAREX group as Director of the Brazilian subsidiary, before becoming Director of Acquisitions. In 2009, he was appointed Managing Director of the PAREX subsidiaries in the United States and in Brazil, in 2014 Managing Director Americas, and in 2018 he became Deputy Managing Director of PAREX, in charge of the Americas, Europe-Middle East and Africa regions as well as of the Group's Purchasing. In 1998, Fernando Accioly Menezes, began his career at PEUGEOT PSA in the Group's Platforms Division, and in 2001 he joined AT KEARNEY as Management and Strategy Consultant. In 2003, he joined IMERYS where he has held a number of senior management posts, first in strategy, later in overseas business (India, Indonesia and China), and then in several Business Units (talc, solutions for the oil and carbonates sectors).