Vizee to lead Coresta board

Huub Vizee has been elected president of the Coresta board for two years.

Vizee has spent the past 29 years working within the tobacco industry in many different areas, including leaf, research, engineering, quality, product development and corporate affairs.

Since September 2011, he has worked for Delfortgroup, based in Wattens, Austria, as head of regulatory affairs. In this role he is responsible for dealing with all tobacco-related regulatory issues worldwide.

In his previous positions, he worked for Van Nelle, Douwe Egberts and Imperial Tobacco, where his last position was head of group regulatory development.

In this role he was responsible for leading Imperial Tobacco’s regulatory engagement as an active participant on global, regional and market levels. In this role he also represented Imperial Tobacco on the board of CECCM, the board of ECMA and the board of Coresta.