Gerard de Reuver (Dutch) studied Pharmacology and Physiology and Biology in Utrecht. He started his career with Pharmacia Biotechnology and started his own company in 1985. Since then he held various general management functions in Unilever (UK), Perstorp (Sweden) and PerkinElmer (USA). He held non-executive positions (for the investment bank 3i) in a number of Biotec and life science companies in UK and Germany before he joined DSM in 2002.

Within DSM he took the responsibility of the Mainstream Business and became President on January 1st, 2006