Previous Keynote Speakers

• 2009 - Dr. Kurt Bock
  Chief Financial Officer, BASF SE;
  Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, BASF Corporation

• 2008 - Stacy Methvin
  President and CEO of
  Shell Chemical Company LP

• 2007 - Randy Dearth
  President & CEO
  Lanxess Corporation

• 2006 - Madeleine Jacobs
  Executive Director & CEO
  American Chemical Society

• 2005 - Charles E. Bunch
  President & CEO
  PPG Industries

• 2004 - Gregori Lebedev
  President & CEO
  American Chemistry Council

• 2003 - Myron Galuskin
  President, Rhodia Inc.

• 2002 - Jeffrey M. Lipton
  CEO, NOVA Chemicals

• 2001 - Paul W. Chellgren
  Chairman & CEO
  Ashland Inc.

• 2000 - William S. Stavropoulos
  President & CEO
  The Dow Chemical Company

• 1999 - Harold A. "Hap" Wagner
  President & CEO
  Air Products and Chemicals

• 1998 - J. Roger Hirl
  President & CEO
  Occidental Chemical Corporation

• 1997 - John A. Krol
  President & CEO,
  DuPont

• 1996 - G. Richard Wagoner Jr.
  President, General Motors
  North American Operations

• 1995 - Jon M. Huntsman
  Chairman of the Board & CEO,
  Huntsman Group

• 1994 - Thomas L. Gossage
  Chairman President & CEO,
  Hercules Inc.

• 1993 - Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr.
  President
  Eastman Chemical Company

• 1992 - Helge H. Wehmeier
  President & CEO,
  Miles, Inc.

• 1991 - James W. Kinnear
  President & CEO,
  Texaco, Inc

• 1990 - The Honorable Peter K. Nune
  Assistant Secretary (Enforcement)
  Department of Treasury
  United States of America

• 1989 - H. Eugene McBrayer
  President
  Exxon Chemical Company

• 1988 - Robert D. Kennedy
  Chairman of the Board & CEO,
  Union Carbide Corporation

• 1987 - Dr. Konrad Weis
  President & CEO
  Bayer USA, Inc.

• 1986 - Vincent A. Sarni
  Chairman of the Board & CEO,
  PPG Industries, Inc.

• 1985 - Ray R. Irani
  President,
  Occidental Petroleum Corporation

• 1984 - Alexander F. Giacco
  Chairman of the Board & CEO,
  Hercules Corporation

• 1983 - Edward L. Hennessy
  Chairman of the Board & CEO,
  Allied Corporation

• 1982 - Richard E. Heckert
  Vice Chairman & CEO,
  DuPont

• 1981 - J. Peter Grace
  President & CEO
  W. R. Grace & Co.

• 1980 - Richard J. Mahoney
  President,
  Monsanto Company

• 1979 - Paul F Oreffice
  President & CEO,
  Dow Chemical Corporation

• 1978 - Gerhard Dittmar
  Director
  Bayer AG

• 1977 - David M. Roderick
  President,
  U. S. Steel Corporation

• 1976 - Werner C. Brown
  President & CEO,
  Hercules Inc.

• 1975 - J. P. St. Clair
  President & Executive VP,
  Shell Chemical Co., Shell Oil Co.

• 1974 - Z. D. Bonner
  President & CEO & Executive VP,
  Gulf Oil Company
  Gulf Oil Corporation

• 1973 - Charles H. Simpson
  President,
  Airco Industrial Gases

• 1972 - Fletcher L. Byrom
  Chairman of the Board & CEO,
  Koppers Company

• 1971 - Robinson F. Barker
  Chairman of the Board & CEO,
  PPG Industries, Inc.

• 1970 - Carl A. Gerstacker
  Chairman of the Board & CEO,
  Dow Chemical Corporation

• 1969 - James G. Baldwin
  Executive Vice President,
  Hooker Chemical Company

• 1968 - John L. Gillis
  Vice President
  Monsanto