VAN LEEMPUTTEN

Born in March 1944 I spent most of my early years in Antwerp, Belgium, but moved to Brussels shortly before graduating from secondary school. After studying chemistry in Ghent, followed by a PhD in Biochemistry, I started working for Nestlé in 1968 and stayed with that company ever since. I also married in 1968 and, uncharacteristically, am still married to the same wife all those years. We have two daughters, Ariane, born in Paris and Edda born in Vevey, Switzerland. Both have gone their own way since long but when you look at my pictures you will discover that we are still a close nit entity... My career with Nestlé has brought us from France to Switzerland, to Nigeria, back to Switzerland, to Malaysia, to India, to Singapore, to Hong Kong and finally to China, in that order. I never worked in Belgium. With my PhD, I logically started in research, but left that ivory tower in 1973 for a career in production.