Bayer Corporation announced new Bayer MaterialScience LLC (BMS) and Bayer Corporate and Business Services LLC (BCBS) chiefs. The appointments will take effect in the third quarter.

Bayer named Gregory Babe, currently head of BCBS, as president and chief executive officer of Bayer MaterialScience LLC and head of the BMS NAFTA Region. He succeeds Ian Paterson, who was previously named to the BMS global Board of Management.

Willy Scherf, who is currently a member of the Board of Management and the labour director of Bayer c, will succeed Babe as BCBS head.

Babe joined Bayer in 1980 and rose through several management positions within the Polyurethanes Group. In 1989, he was transferred to the corporation's Brunsbuettel, Germany, facility as plant manager. In 1992, he was named director and general manager of Hennecke Machinery, a Pittsburgh-based unit of the Bayer Polymers Division.

Scherf joined Bayer AG in 1977 in the Corporate Auditing Department. Between 1980 and 1993, he held various financial and accounting managerial positions at Bayer locations in Morocco, Hong Kong and Brazil, and assignments at Bayer AG's Leverkusen, Germany, headquarters.