DuPont has announced that two employees have been named DuPont Fellows, the highest
technical professional
level in the company.
George Kodokian and
Andrew Morgan are being honored as DuPont
Fellows for their outstanding technical expertise and leadership. They
join an elite group of
scientists and engineers
with only 24 other active
members globally.
“DuPont is one of
the world’s most innovative science companies.
We connect world-class
science, technology and
engineering to a deep understanding of
commercial value chains and market
knowledge to deliver value-added so-
lutions for customers and solve global
challenges for people everywhere,” said
DuPont senior vice president and chief
science & technology officer Douglas
Muzyka. “As the company’s most dis-
tinguished scientists and engineers,
DuPont Fellows define new technolo-
gies and directions of research and
inspire the technical community both
internally and externally.”
Through both personal contributions
and collaboration with others, these lat-
est scientific leaders to join the ranks of
DuPont Fellows translate their technical
knowledge, skill and commitment into
results with significant impact for global
customers in a number of areas.
George Kodokian is an engineer who
brings an entrepreneurial problem-solving mindset and business acumen
to generate novel material solutions
for customers in diverse spaces, such
as drug delivery, reactor liners, fibers
technology, automotive coatings, biomedical and energy storage materials,
according to DuPont.
Andrew Morgan is a scientist, rigorous researcher and thought leader in the
field of food and nutrition science with a
career spanning food ingredients, health
and nutrition, food and feed enzymes,
and plant biotechnology. He was a pioneer in the discovery and development
of feed enzymes for animal nutrition;
and his vision and leadership has been
instrumental in establishing the Health
and Nutrition Science platform within
DuPont Nutrition & Health.
Emerald Performance
Materials Elects Gotch to
Board of Directors
Emerald Performance Materials elected
Edward T. Gotch to serve on the company’s
board of directors. Gotch
is also CEO of Emerald
Kalama Chemical, LLC,
a business group of
Emerald Performance
Materials, and has been a
key member of Emerald’s
leadership team since the
company was formed in
2006. His vision in leading the organization has been instrumental to its successful
transformation, engendering accelerated
growth that tripled the company’s size
over a ten-year period, Emerald reported.
Prior to his tenure at Emerald
Performance Materials, Gotch served in
corporate financial planning and analysis
and general management roles at Emerald
predecessor companies Lubrizol, Noveon
and BFGoodrich, as well as at several
plant operating units in the U.S. and in
Asia of the Geon/OxyVinyls Company.
Gotch earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Toledo and
his M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Chromaflo Hires New
Territory Sales Manager
Chromaflo Technologies, a leading in-
dependent global suppliers of colorant
systems, chemical and pigment disper-
sions, has hired Robert Samuel as territo-
ry sales manager – coatings for the Great
Lakes/Midwest Region.
In this role, Samuel will manage direct sales efforts of Chromaflo
Technologies’ paint and coatings business in the assigned territory through
direct management of existing and new
customer relationships. Samuel will be
based out of the Ashtabula, Ohio corporate office.
Samuel was most recently a district
sales representative for L.M. Schofield
Company, and has outside sales experience in the construction, chemicals and
pigments industries.
PPG Announces Executive
Appointment
PPG Industries has announced that Jeff
Oravitz, previously chief executive officer of MetoKote, has
been appointed vice
president of PPG coatings
services and president of
PPG-MetoKote, reporting directly to Viktor
Sekmakas, PPG executive
vice president. PPG recently announced it had
completed its acquisition of MetoKote.
Oravitz joined MetoKote in 2005 as
vice president, and he was elected president and CEO in 2011. Prior to his tenure
at MetoKote, he worked at PPG for 20
years in a variety of roles in several coatings businesses.
Oravitz will manage the PPG coatings
services group, with more than 1,500 employees globally, from the PPG-MetoKote
headquarters in Lima, Ohio.
PPG-MetoKote applies coatings to
customers’ manufactured parts and assembled products, providing coatings
services on site within customer manufacturing locations as well as at regional service centers throughout North America
and Europe. CW
DuPont Names Two New Fellows
Kodokian
Morgan
Gotch
Oravitz
