MOSCOW (MRC) -- DuPont has named Rose Lee as president of its Protection Technologies business effective October 1, reporting to DuPont Senior Vice President Marc Doyle, as per MorningStar.
"Rose is a proven leader who brings global business and management expertise, supported by her deep understanding of science and technology, to help us drive customer engagement and business growth for the Protection Technologies business now and into the future," said Doyle.
Lee has served as global business director, DuPont Kevlar and Aramid Intermediates. Prior to DuPont, Lee was vice president and general manager, Innovative Materials, for Saint-Gobain Corporation. She has held business and functional leadership roles at Saint-Gobain, Booz Allen & Hamilton and the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies.
Lee served as a member of the Economic Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Inc. She holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from Cornell University, and an M.S. in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As MRC wrote previously, in May 2015, The Chemours Co., the company created by the spinoff of Dupont's Performance Chemicals unit, named the eight members of its board of directors. The spinoff is expected to occur July 1.
DuPont is an American chemical company that was founded in July, 1802. The company manufactures a wide range of chemical products, leading extensive innovative research in this field. The company is the inventor of many unique plastics and other materials, including neoprene, nylon, Teflon, Kevlar, Mylar, Tyvek, etc. DuPont was the developer and main producer of Freon used in the production of refrigeration equipment.
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