|
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Dow Chemical Company
Andrew N. Liveris is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan. Liveris chairs the Office of the Chief Executive, the company's executive leadership team. He was named President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) in November 2003 and named Chief Executive Officer in November 2004.
Liveris' 28-year Dow career has spanned manufacturing, sales, marketing, new business development and management. He joined Dow in 1976 in Melbourne, Australia, and held various production, project engineering and marketing positions in Australia, Hong Kong and the U.S. He was named Dow's general manager for all operations in Thailand in 1989.
In 1992, he moved to the U.S. as group business director for Emulsion Polymers and New Ventures. He was appointed general manager and then vice president in 1993 and 1994 respectively for Dow's start-up businesses in Environmental Services. In 1995, he was named president of Dow Chemical Pacific and moved back to Hong Kong. He returned to the U.S. in 1998 as vice president of Specialty Chemicals.
In 2000, Liveris was appointed president of Performance Chemicals Business Group, a $5 billion portfolio that brought together specialty chemical businesses from several acquisitions, including ANGUS Chemical, Hampshire Chemical, Union Carbide, Ascot Plc and, the acrylics business of Celanese AG.
Liveris has been a member of the Board of Directors of Dow since February 2004.
Liveris resides in Midland, Michigan, where he is a board member of Dow Corning Corporation, a member of the Midland advisory board of Comerica Bank and the Board of Trustees of the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation.
Liveris graduated with first-class honors with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of The Institute of Chemical Engineers.
|
English
