Avantium Nominates Rogier van Wijk as its New Chief Financial Officer

18 Mar 2026 06:45 CET

AMSTERDAM, 18 March 2026, 06:45 hrs CET – Avantium N.V., a pioneer in renewable and circular polymer materials, today announces the nomination of Rogier van Wijk as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective 1 May 2026. Rogier will succeed interim CFO René Ploegsma, who has fulfilled the role since August 2025. The Supervisory Board proposes to appoint Rogier van Wijk as CFO to the Management Board of Avantium at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM), to be held on 12 May 2026.

Rogier van Wijk is a seasoned finance executive with extensive experience in multinational and listed organisations. He brings more than 25 years of finance leadership across corporate finance, M&A, investor relations, treasury, risk management, and business transformation. Rogier joins Avantium from Cyclomedia Technology B.V., where he served as CFO and Management Board member with responsibility for Finance, Legal, M&A and HR. Prior to this role, he held senior finance leadership positions at Intertrust N.V., TPV Technology, and Philips, working in Europe, the United States, and Asia.

Edwin Moses, Chair of Avantium’s Supervisory Board, says: “We are pleased to nominate Rogier as the new CFO and member of the Management Board of Avantium. His international background, strong leadership, and deep experience across corporate finance, transformational growth and global operations make him well suited to support Avantium’s next phase of development. His breadth of experience in listed and global environments will help support our commercialisation and licensing strategy, and our trajectory towards EBITDA profitability. We very much look forward to working with him. On behalf of the Supervisory Board, I would also like to thank interim CFO René Ploegsma for his hard work and valuable contributions to Avantium.” 

The meeting documents for the Annual General Meeting on 12 May 2026 will be published on the Avantium website in due course. 

About Avantium

Avantium is a pioneering commercial-stage company focused on renewable & circular polymer materials. Avantium develops and commercializes innovative technologies for the production of materials based on sustainable carbon feedstocks, i.e. carbon from biomass or carbon from the air (CO2). The most advanced technology is the YXY® Technology that catalytically converts plant-based sugars into FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid), the key building block for the sustainable plastic PEF (polyethylene furanoate). PEF is known under the brand name releaf®, an EU registered trademark of Avantium. Avantium has successfully demonstrated the YXY® Technology at its pilot plant in Geleen, the Netherlands, and is in the process of starting the world's first commercial plant for FDCA in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. Avantium works in partnership with like-minded companies around the globe to 
develop revolutionary renewable chemistry solutions from invention to commercial scale.

Avantium’s shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels (symbol: AVTX). Avantium is incorporated in the Euronext Amsterdam SmallCap Index (AScX) Its offices and headquarters are in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

For more information: 

Caroline van Reedt Dortland, Director Communications
+31-20-5860110 / +31-613400179 
mediarelations@avantium.com 

Aarne Luten, Director Investor Relations 
+31-625687714 
ir@avantium.com