Thomas Kostka departed from chemicals and consumer products provider Henkel to become head of corporate venturing at Germany-based specialty chemicals producer Altana.
Kostka had spent more than a dozen years at Germany-based Henkel, most recently as senior investment manager for its adhesive technologies corporate venturing unit.
Altana hired Kostka after Florian Loebermann, the previous head of corporate venturing at the company, left in late 2019 to become managing director of 3D printer manufacturer DP Polar.
During the interim period, Volker Mansfeld, head of corporate development at Altana, maintained a corporate venturing portfolio that includes Velox, the Israel-based digital printing technology provider that raised $32m in late 2018.
