In most corporate settings, few people can attest to having sailed the seven seas – but Marc is the exception.
Location: Maasvlakte, The Netherlands
Year joined LyondellBasell: 1987
Education: Marine Engineering degree, Higher Nautical School of Vlissingen, 1968
After hours: Sailing, snowboarding, traveling/backpacking
Favorite dessert: Cream pie
Marc spent more than a decade as a marine engineer, working his way up to chief engineer on gas tankers. He disembarked and worked several years as a product manager specializing in equipment designed to measure marine oil pollution, and as an advisor to the International Marine Organization, he contributed to the establishment of International Laws on Marine Oil Pollution Reduction.
Needless to say, when Marc joined the organization 20 years ago, he’d already been quite busy. His personal philosophy revolves around working hard and creating one’s own destiny, making LyondellBasell a good place to begin yet another professional chapter.
LyondellBasell is full of opportunities for the self-made person.
“The possibility to create your own future exists here,” Marc said. “We are given lots of freedom to develop new and better ways of doing things. LyondellBasell is full of opportunities for the self-made person.”
That opportunity transcends the workplace. Marc along with other volunteers help provide technical expertise for building and operating orphanages and schools for children suffering with polio in the eastern areas of Nepal.
“I’ve identified ways to involve our expertise as well as our organization’s resources to provide clean, portable water for orphanages using fog collection screens made of propylene – a LyondellBasell by-product,” he said. “We all benefit from working to provide better resources for the community.”