{"id":5404,"date":"2026-07-21T07:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/21\/dimitri-de-vreezes-toughest-call-selling-a-beloved-business-redefining-success-at-dsm-firmenich\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:47:55","slug":"dimitri-de-vreezes-toughest-call-selling-a-beloved-business-redefining-success-at-dsm-firmenich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/21\/dimitri-de-vreezes-toughest-call-selling-a-beloved-business-redefining-success-at-dsm-firmenich\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitri de Vreeze&#8217;s Toughest Call: Selling a Beloved Business, Redefining Success at DSM-Firmenich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitri de Vreeze, CEO of DSM-Firmenich, shares the profound challenges of selling a business he helped build over three decades. In &#8220;Executive Decisions,&#8221; he discusses the strategic necessity versus personal difficulty of the sale, reshaping his views on success as a continuous journey.<\/p>\n<p>The interview also covers his leadership evolution, the strategic decision to end a large biofuels project, and the risks of acting on assumptions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/24\/dimitri-de-vreeze-dsm-materials-business-sale-executive-decisions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitri de Vreeze, CEO of DSM-Firmenich, shares the profound challenges of selling a business he helped build over three decades. In &#8220;Executive Decisions,&#8221; he discusses the strategic necessity versus personal difficulty of the sale, reshaping his views on success as a continuous journey. The interview also covers his leadership evolution, the strategic decision to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108335366-2026_EXEC_DECISIONS_YOUTUBE_THUMB_DIMITRI_DE_VREEZE_1920X1080_CLEAN.jpg?v=1784125005&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global-affairs","category-technology","rifnote_executive-dimitri-de-vreeze","rifnote_executive-steve-sedgwick"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108335366-2026_EXEC_DECISIONS_YOUTUBE_THUMB_DIMITRI_DE_VREEZE_1920X1080_CLEAN.jpg?v=1784125005&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}