Massimo Covezzi — Senior Vice President of Research & Development at LyondellBasell Industries

Mr. Massimo Covezzi has been Senior Vice President of Research and Development at LyondellBasell Industries N.V. since January 2008. Mr. Covezzi served as Senior Vice President of LyondellBasell Industries N.V. and also served as its Head of Research and Development from August 2005 to December 2007. Mr. Covezzi served as the President of Research and Development for Basell Polyolefins of LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A. since May 2005. He served for a chromium salt company before joining Basell predecessor company Himont in 1984. At Himont, his early assignments focused on process development and he was on the start-up team for a new Spheripol process plant at Varennes, Quebec, Canada in 1986. From 1989 to 1995, he was responsible for the development and commercialisation of Himont's gas phase technologies and of the start-up of two plants in the United States - at Bayport, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana - and one in Yoecheon (South Korea). In 1995, when Himont became part of the Montell joint venture, Mr. Covezzi served as its Core Technology Director for polyethylene and in 1999 he was assigned the same responsibility for polypropylene. In these roles, he coordinated on a worldwide basis all related R&D activities and programmes. From 2001 to 2004, he served R&D and catalyst manufacturing site coordinator in Ferrara, Italy and head of manufacturing platforms within Basell. He served as the Head of product and application development of Basell and R&D site coordinator in Frankfurt since April 2004. He served as the President of Research & Development since May 2005. Mr. Covezzi earned a Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bologna in 1982.