Wilmington, De., USA - August 13, 2009, Wilmington, De., USA - DuPont announced that, effective October 1, it will change several top executives and align the organization across many division.
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Thomas M. Connelly, Jr., executive vice president and chief innovation officer, will be responsible for the Applied BioSciences, Nutrition & Health, Performance Polymers, and Packaging & Industrial Polymers businesses. He will continue to lead science and technology and the geographic regions outside the United States. In addition, Connelly will lead the integration of the sourcing and logistics and operations functions to capture potential productivity available from end-to-end process improvements.
James C. Borel, group vice president - DuPont Agriculture, is named executive vice president. He will be responsible for the company's Pioneer Hi-Bred and Crop Protection businesses. Borel will focus on strengthening and growing the company's production agriculture businesses globally.
Mark P. Vergnano, group vice president - DuPont Safety & Protection, is named executive vice president. He will be responsible for the Building Innovations, Protection Technologies, Safety Resources, Electronics & Communications, Chemical Solutions, Fluoroproducts, and Titanium Technologies businesses. He also will lead the company's sustainability, safety, communications, and sales and marketing functions.
Jeffrey L. Keefer, executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), will move to a new role with responsibility for the Performance Coatings business, corporate strategy development process, and overall cost and working capital productivity efforts. He will continue as CFO until Oct. 31 to ensure a smooth transition to the new CFO.
Nicholas C. Fanandakis, group vice president - Applied BioSciences, will begin to transition Sept. 1 and become CFO effective Nov. 1. Fanandakis has served in a range of financial and business leadership positions during his 30-year career at DuPont.
Richard R. Goodmanson, chief operating officer, will pursue his plans to retire, effective Sept. 30.
Jeffrey A. Coe, senior vice president - Sourcing & Logistics, is named senior vice president - Integrated Operations & Engineering effective Sept. 1 following the retirement of Mathieu Vrijsen. ■