Christian Stammkoetter

Christian started his career in 1997, at Unilever Germany in Marketing & Sales functions. In 2000 he founded the venture capital financed Internet Start Up printium.com, which he directed as CEO. In 2001, he joined Wella AG as International Marketing Manager and then later he became Associate Marketing Director at Procter&Gamble post-acquisition of Wella.

In 2004, Christian joined Numico as Marketing Director in Germany. Between 2007 and 2017, Christian held different General Management positions in Danone, starting with Managing Director Baby Nutrition for Czech Republic and Slovakia, followed by the role of General Manager Danone Early Life Nutrition for Russia and Kazakhstan before taking in 2013 the responsibility as General Manager, Danone Waters Spain. In 2017, he became Vice President Integration where he led the integration of the WhiteWave business into Danone.

From October 2017, Christian was Senior Vice President for Waters Europe, North America and evian-Volvic-International also joining the Board of Danone Waters as well as the Danone Executive Leadership Team. As of January 2021, he additionally assumed the responsibility for Danone Waters Worldwide Business Unit before spearheading the Global Plant-Based Category in early 2022.

Christian is a native of Germany and graduated from University of Muenster with a Master of Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann). He serves as President of Food Industry Asia and is a member of the EU-ASEAN Business Council.