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Here
to stay: Belén Garijo
has not only changed a lot in
terms of the
atmosphere in Darmstadt
Photo:
Markus Scholz / picture alliance / dpa
Belén Garijo
, it must be said right at the beginning, is a small, very petite woman of 60 years.
It is likely to be largely or even completely unknown to most German business leaders.
Nevertheless, she will soon become the most important woman in the German corporate landscape - if she is not already today.
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For the Darmstadt-based chemical and pharmaceutical company Merck, she is so indispensable that the shareholders' council has named her the successor to the current CEO,
Stefan Oschmann
(63).
After the short-term engagement of
Jennifer Morgan
(49) at the top of SAP, she will be the second head of a DAX company.
And she will hold office for much longer, this forecast is daring.
Belén Garijo, who speaks a harsh, Spanish-tinged English and offers her interlocutors the first name, "Call me Belén, please", is silent.
She prefers to tell how it came about that she moved from the Parisian global corporation Sanofi to Darmstadt, a city that has filled up its war wounds with concrete blocks, and to a company that seemed to be past its prime.
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