Kline Hires for European Operation

New Jersey-headquartered consulting and research firm Kline & Company has appointed Luca Raffellini as Director of Kline Europe, based in the firm's recently opened European headquarters in Oxford, UK.

Raffellini was previously Head of Global Marketing for the Infineum Group, a joint venture of ExxonMobil and Shell. Prior to this he was Senior Manager at Arthur D Little Chemicals in London, and held R&D and commercial positions with EniChem in Italy. Raffellini earned a Doctorate in Chemistry from Bologna University in Italy, and an MBA from Cranfield University in the UK.

In his new role, Raffellini will lead client service teams providing chemical and energy industry clients with strategy development, technology management, and merger and acquisition support.

Commented Fred du Plessis, SVP Kline Europe - which opened in December (www.mrweb.com/drno/news7690.htm ): 'Luca's expertise in corporate and business strategy development for multinational clients and on M&A assistance will be invaluable to our clients.'

Kline provides management consultancy and market research to chemicals, materials, energy, life sciences and consumer products firms, and is on the web at www.KlineGroup.com.