BU President Health, Nutrition & Care
Alessandre Keller joined dsm-firmenich in October 2025 as incoming HNC President with over 25 years of global leadership experience gathered out of China, Asia-Pacific, Europe & Middle East and Latin America. He brings clear strategic vision and a strong track record of transformational excellence across the healthcare, nutrition, and FMCG sectors. From 2019-2025 Alessandre was with the leading European diagnostic services company Unilabs. There, he ultimately served as Chief Markets Officer and Executive Board member, turning around a €1.6 billion business across 16 countries. Previously, during his extensive career spanning multiple roles at Nestlé from 2000-2019, Alessandre played a central role in advancing the company’s global nutrition strategy across all life stages. He drove market leadership in healthy-aging nutrition in China and led breakthrough innovations like the HMO and organic pipeline that reshaped the infant formula category as the company’s global leader for early life nutrition, guiding strategy and supervising operations in over 80 countries.
Alessandre holds a master’s in Business Administration from The Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.