Lanxess Corp. announced Simon Berheide as its new regional CFO for North America. Berheide is a 14-year veteran of Lanxess at its global headquarters in Germany and was most recently head of business development and integration as well as head of global controlling and strategy.

He'll be in charge of the financial operation of Lanxess' 28 locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. He succeeds Christian Meiners, who is returning to Germany after three years in Pittsburgh to work in Lanxess' Advanced Industrial Intermediates. Berheide has moved as of July 1 to the Pittsburgh region with his family, and he is working with Lanxess' new president and CEO, Frederique van Baarle.

Van Baarle took over in October. Berheide, fluent in German and English, had been in a dual degree training program at Bayer and also had an MBA at IE Business School in Spain and the Stern School of Business at New York University.