John Phillpotts is President of Univar Europe.

John has 33 years of industry experience, having joined Ellis & Everard in the UK in 1969. Over the last 20 years he has had profit responsibility for
several of the businesses within E & E's European portfolio. He joined the main Board of Ellis & Everard plc in 1989, where he was responsible for their European chemical and polymer activities. Following the acquisition by Univar in 2001, John became responsible for our Northern and Central European chemical businesses, and Distrupol - our polymer subsidiary. On November 1, 2002, his responsibilities extended to all our European
operations.