Stefan Doboczky, an Austrian citizen, was appointed CEO of Borealis in July 2024. His career started in 1992 with ARCO Chemical in the UK, where he spent seven years before joining Royal DSM, where he held successive senior management and executive board positions in the Netherlands, China and Singapore over a period of 17 years. In 2015, he was appointed CEO of Lenzing AG, a position he held for six years before private equity in the specialty chemicals arena with SK Capital and Heubach in 2022. He has been a member of the OMV Supervisory Board since 2019, from which he stepped down due to his new role at Borealis. Stefan Doboczky holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria and an MBA from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.