Christine Gehres has joined Sudarshan’s pigment division as the new vice president of global marketing and strategy. She will lead the pigment division’s global marketing initiative and provide strategic direction in all aspects of the pigment business. Sudarshan said the hiring will help it achieve its goal of becoming the fourth largest pigment player in the world by 2014. Gehres is an experienced business executive with broad international marketing and pigment experience gained over more than 20 years at global chemical companies including Hoechst (Clariant), Engelhard (BASF) and Ciba.