Mark P. Vergnano, age 59, serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to joining Chemours, he held roles of increasing responsibility at E.
I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. In October 2009, Mr. Vergnano was appointed
Executive Vice President of DuPont and was responsible for multiple businesses
and functions, including the businesses in the Chemours segment: DuPont Chemicals
& Fluoroproducts and Titanium Technologies. In June 2006, he was named Group
Vice President of DuPont Safety & Protection. In October 2005, he was named
Vice President and General Manager - Surfaces and Building Innovations. In February
2003, he was named Vice President and General Manager -Nonwovens. Prior to that,
he had several assignments in manufacturing, technology, marketing, sales and
business strategy. Mr. Vergnano joined DuPont in 1980 as a process engineer.
Mr. Vergnano has served on the board of directors of the National Safety Council
since 2007, the American Chemistry Council since 2015, and Johnson Controls
International plc since 2016. He previously served on the board of directors
of Johnson Controls, Inc. from 2011 to 2016.
Mark E. Newman, age 53, serves as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer. Mr. Newman joined Chemours in November 2014 from SunCoke Energy where
he was SunCoke Energy’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
and led its financial, strategy, business development and information technology
functions. Mr. Newman joined SunCoke’s leadership team in March 2011 to
help drive SunCoke’s separation from its parent company, Sunoco, Inc.
He led SunCoke through an initial public offering and championed a major restructuring
of SunCoke, which resulted in the initial public offering of SunCoke Energy
Partners in January 2013, creating the first coke-manufacturing master limited
partnership. Prior to joining SunCoke, Mr. Newman served as Vice President Remarketing
& Managing Director of SmartAuction, Ally Financial Inc. (previously General
Motors Acceptance Corporation). Mr. Newman began his career at General Motors
in 1986 as an Industrial Engineer and progressed through several financial and
operational leadership roles within the global automaker, including Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer of Shanghai General Motors Limited; Assistant Treasurer
of General Motors Corporation; and North America Vice President and CFO.
E. Bryan Snell, age 60, serves as our President - Titanium Technologies. Mr.
Snell was appointed President - Titanium Technologies in May 2015. Previously,
he served as Planning Director - DuPont Performance Chemicals (2014-2015). Prior
to that, he held leadership positions in DuPont Titanium Technologies, including
Planning Director (2011-12 in Wilmington, DE and 2012-13 in Singapore) and Global
Sales and Marketing Director (2008-2010). Mr. Snell served as Regional Operations
Director - DuPont Coatings and Color Technologies Platform in 2007 and 2008.
He was posted in Taiwan from 2002 to 2006, in the roles of Plant Manager -Kuan
Yin Plant and Asia/Pacific Regional Director, DuPont Titanium Technologies.
Mr. Snell joined DuPont in 1978 as a process engineer and has experience in
nuclear and petrochemical operations, as well as sales, business strategy and
M&A.
Paul Kirsch, age 53, serves as our President - Fluoroproducts. Mr. Kirsch joined
Chemours in June 2016 from Henkel AG & Company, where he served as Senior
Vice President of supply chain and operations for three years. Prior to that,
he was President of the automotive, metals, and aerospace division of Henkel
AG & Company KGaA. He also served as Co-Chairman of a Henkel-BASF joint
venture. Before joining Henkel in 2009, Mr. Kirsch spent nearly 25 years in
various engineering, operations, and business development roles of increasing
responsibility within the automotive and telematics industries. He was Vice
President of Hughes Telematics, where his responsibilities included business
development, quality, and strategic planning. He also served as Vice President
of XM Satellite Radio, where he was responsible for growing and running the
automotive business of the Washington, DC–based firm. Mr. Kirsch started
his career at Delphi in 1985, where he worked for nearly 19 years, in both regional
and global roles ranging from product engineer to director of engineering for
Asia Pacific to director of mergers and acquisitions, as well as general director
of sales, marketing, and strategic planning.
Christian W. Siemer, age 58, serves as our President - Chemical Solutions. He
moved to this role in July 2014. Mr. Siemer joined DuPont in 2010 as the Managing
Director of Clean Technologies, a business unit of DuPont Sustainable Solutions
focused on process technology development and licensing. He led the successful
acquisition of MECS Inc., the global leader in technology for the production
of sulfuric acid. Mr. Siemer began his career in 1980 with Stauffer Chemicals
as a process engineer. Following Stauffer’s acquisition by ICI plc, Mr.
Siemer moved through a range of commercial roles and overseas assignments managing
portfolios of international industrial and specialty chemical businesses.
David C. Shelton, age 53, serves as our Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary. In 2011, Mr. Shelton was appointed Associate General
Counsel, DuPont, and was responsible for the US Commercial team - the business
lawyers and paralegals counseling all the DuPont business units with the exception
of Agriculture. Mr. Shelton was the Commercial attorney to a variety of DuPont
businesses including the Performance Materials platform, which he advised on
international assignment in Geneva, and the businesses now comprising the DuPont
Chemicals and Fluoroproducts business unit. Prior to that, Mr. Shelton advised
the company on environmental and remediation matters as part of the environmental
legal team. Mr. Shelton joined DuPont in 1996, after seven years in private
practice as a litigator in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Beth Albright, age 50, serves as our Senior Vice President Human Resources.
Mrs. Albright joined DuPont in October 2014 from Day & Zimmermann, where
she held the position of Senior Vice-President Human Resources since May 2011.
Prior to her experience at Day & Zimmermann, Mrs. Albright was the Global
Vice President Human Resources for Tekni-Plex, which she joined in July 2009.
She joined Rohm and Haas in 2000 and held various Human Resources supporting
global businesses, technology, manufacturing and staff functions. In 1995 she
joined FMC as site Human Resources manager at a manufacturing site and progressed
into the corporate office. Mrs. Albright began her career with Fluor Daniel
Construction in their Industrial Relations department in 1989.
Erich Parker, age 65, serves as our Vice President of Corporate Communications
and Chief Brand Officer. Mr. Parker was appointed Creative Director and Global
Director of Corporate Communications of DuPont in 2010. He led the initiative
to develop corporate positioning and its creative expression through branded
content and program sponsorship with large international media outlets. In 2008,
Mr. Parker was appointed Communications Leader for DuPont’s Safety and
Protection Platform. Prior to joining DuPont, Mr. Parker was principal of his
own public relations and marketing communications firm based in Washington,
D.C., and New York. Mr. Parker has also served as Executive Vice President of
Association & Issues Management; Director of Communications for the American
Academy of Actuaries; founding publisher and Executive Editor of the magazine
Contingencies; and Public Affairs Aide for Renewable Energy to the Secretary
of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy.
The Chemours Company currently has 7000 employees.