GOVERNANCE

Thomas has worked 30 years in the petrochemical industry in various roles. He holds a Master in chemical process engineering. After merger of new Borealis he became responsible for Operations Planning and asset management in Denmark head office. In 2000 he moved back to Austria and fulfilled various roles in senior management positions as General manager for the central European production sites, VP Operations for Polyolefine group of companies. His current role is SVP for Projects. Thomas is an Austrian citizen, married and has 2 children.

Alexander Adotevi began his career in 1994 at the Intel Corporation in the United Kingdom.  He has worked in the UK until 2011, before transitioning to TotalEnergies Nederland NV and holding other various positions globally.  Mr. Adotevi has worked in multi-national environments throughout his career, working in Germany, Paris, and The Netherlands.

He started his employment with TotalEnergies UK Ltd in 2009 as the finance manager, tracking all aspects of the monthly performance reporting process and adhering to the budgeting process. After serving as the finance manager, he became the TotalEnergies Nederland NV finance director.

During his time in TotalEnergies, Paris (2018-21), Mr. Adotevi served as Vice President of Corporate Finance & Project Finance, Downstream (MS/RC) and oversaw financing of large projects, coordinating the team’s working capital optimization programs, as well as serving as a board member to various initiatives.

He currently resides in Houston as the Chief Financial Officer for TotalEnergies American Services, Inc. and for TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining.  Alexander Adotevi has been in this role since Sept. 2021. 

Mr. Adotevi attended the Universite de Paris II Licence with a Bachelor of Science in
Economics in 1991.

Paul Colonna started his career in 1993 at Composites One LLC – a 50.1% owned TotalEnergies business – as Operations Manager. He held a number of managerial roles there before moving to Cook Composites & Polymers, another joint venture majority-owned by TotalEnergies, in 2004. He was Vice President of Composites until 2008 when he became President & CEO.

He joined Total in 2014 as Vice President Polymers, Americas. Since then, he has been responsible for North and South American Polymers business activities Polyethylene, Polypropylene & Polystyrene for TotalEnergies.

A native of northern California, he is a graduate from California State University of Business Administration and holds a degree from UCLA Andersen School.

Eric Duchesne has been serving as Senior Vice President at TotalEnergies for 9 years.
He started his career in 1991 as a graduated engineer in technical plant support and projects in polymers in France, then Scotland and Belgium. In 2011, he was appointed General Manager of TOTAL Lyon Technical Center before becoming Senior Vice President Technologies within Refining & Chemicals in 2012.

Renowned both for his managerial skills and his expertise in the field, Eric Duchesne was appointed Senior Vice President, Technology Experts of the Total Group in 2016. Two years later, he became Senior Vice President Manufacturing & Projects and member of the Refining & Chemicals management committee (CDRC). And more recently, he joined One Tech Technical Lines as SVP on September 1st, 2021. His team is providing technical assistance to all the TotalEnergies assets throughout the world as well as contributing to each development project.

Since the beginning of his career, Eric Duchesne has been participating in various projects and technological developments within TotalEnergies Company.

Thomas Marthinsen began his career at Borealis in 2003 as part of the shared services finance team in Belgium. Over his 17 year career with Borealis, he has held progressively more senior roles with the company, including Controller at Borealis’ compounding plant in New Jersey, USA Manager in the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) department in Vienna, Austria and Regional Controller for Asia North at Borouge, Borealis’ joint venture with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, in Shanghai, China.

Thomas currently serves as the Head of Borealis’ Office in Houston, TX and is a management team member of the Joint Venture and Growth Projects business group.

Thomas has a degree in Economics from the University of Toronto, Canada and completed his MBA from Columbia University in New York.

Philippe Roodhooft is the Executive Vice President of Joint Ventures and Growth Projects for Borealis, appointed in November 2017. He first joined Neste Chemicals in 1990 as a project engineer in Beringen, Belgium. After the merger with Statoil he became responsible for plant management in Borealis Kallo and later on in Beringen. He moved to Vienna, Austria in 2007 and since then fulfilled several senior management positions as General Manager for the Central European production sites, Senior Vice President Operations for the Borealis group of companies and Senior Vice President Supply Chain and Product Management for Polyolefins. In 2013 Philippe moved to Borouge ADP in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as Chief Operating Officer.

He holds a Masters degree Cum Laude in Applied Science from the “Katholieke Universiteit Leuven”, Belgium with a specialization in Production Management and Electro-Mechanical Engineering. Philippe was born in 1963 and is a Belgian citizen. He is married, has 2 children and lives in Vienna, Austria.

Mark Tonkens is CFO and member of the Executive Board of Borealis AG. Before being appointed as CFO in November 2014 he held the position of Senior Vice President Group Controlling. Mark joined Borealis in January 2009.

Mark is also Board and Audit Committee member of Borouge ADP a joint venture between Borealis and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).

Before joining Borealis Mark held various senior management roles within Royal Philips group as CFO and Senior Vice President of various major global Business Units or Country Organisations located from the Netherlands and Greece in Europe to Taiwan and Hong Kong in Asia.

He has a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Business Economics and a post graduate Chartered Accountant (Register accountant) degree from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Mark Tonkens is a Dutch citizen, married, has three children and lives in Vienna, Austria.

Christophe Vuillez began his career in 1988, at SNECMA (now Safran Aircraft Engines), where he led an R&D team specialized in aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics. Christophe Vuillez joined TotalEnergies in 1994 and helped build the Leuna refinery in Germany as Operations Manager.

In 2000, Christophe Vuillez transitioned to Louis Dreyfus to help develop its telecommunications business. After rejoining TotalEnergies in 2006, Christophe held a number of positions in the Refining & Marketing business.

With the creation of the Refining & Chemicals segment in January 2012, Christophe Vuillez was appointed Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions in the Strategy, Development & Research Division.

On September 1, 2016, Christophe Vuillez was appointed Senior Vice President, Strategy, Development & Research and joined the Management Committee for Refining & Chemicals.

On September 1, 2021, Christophe Vuillez was appointed Senior Vice President Refining & Petrochemicals Americas and President, Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc. based in Houston, Texas.

Christophe Vuillez is a graduate of the French engineering schools Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Superieure de I'Aeronautique et de l'Espace.