P&G Picks Professional Care President
The president of Procter & Gamble’s Professional Care business, Carsten Fischer, is resigning to pursue other interests.
The resignation will become effective Oct. 1. Robert Jongstra, vice president for Hair Care in Western Europe, will succeed Carsten. Jongstra will report to Chris Delapuente, group president for P&G’s professional and retail hair care business. He will continue to be based in Geneva.
For the last six years, Jongstra has led P&G’s Western Europe’s hair care business as well as its global Head & Shoulders franchise. He is credited with being a strong innovator who has developed many “new capabilities that are widely used throughout our company,” according to a company spokesman.
In the mid-Nineties, Jongstra led P&G’s beauty and health business in France, and in the late Nineties, he oversaw the company’s fine fragrances unit for the Western Hemisphere. He also supervised the integration of the Giorgio Beverly Hills acquisition in North America and the Iams acquisition in Western Europe. Jongstra is Dutch and is fluent in German.