Horst-Otto Gerberding
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- flavors and fragrances
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Residence
- Holzminden
- Education
- Western Washington University (Bachelor of Business Administration)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 3
Assets
- Symrise AG7,022,000 shares @ --SY1-DE
Biography
Horst-Otto Gerberding owns 5% of Symrise AG, one of the world's largest makers of ingredients for fragrances, flavors, nutrients and cosmetics.
Symrise resulted from the 2003 merger of Dragoco and Haarmann & Reimer.
Founded in 1919 by Carl-Wilhelm Gerberding in Holzminden, Germany, Dragoco started out producing formulations for perfume and soap.
Horst-Otto serves on the advisory board of Symrise, which employs more than 10,000 people and has annual revenue of around $4 billion.
He was also majority owner and chairman of the advisory board of Gottfried Friedrichs GmbH & Co. KG, a fish-products company based in Hamburg. It closed with no buyer in 2023.
About
He holds a BA in Business Administration from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.
Together with his wife, Kirsten, he founded Courage - Die Gerberding Stiftung, a foundation focused on youth education, sports and civic engagement.