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DuPont

COMPANY

E. I. duPont and Co., founded 1802 by Éleuthère Irénée du Pont. Forced under anti-trust legislation to divest Hercules in 1912. Acquired Conoco in 1981, spun off in 1998. Purchased the Danish chemical-pharma firm Danisco in 2011.

Official Website:
http://www.dupont.com/

Industry:
Chemical

Ticker:
NYSE:DD

Corporate headquarters:
Wilmington, DE

Sales:
$28.5B (2005)

Employees:
60,000

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jerald A. Blumberg
Business
c. 1939   Chairman of DuPont Europe, 1995-97
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.
Business
8-Jan-1888 1976 President of DuPont, 1940-48
E. Gary Cook
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Witco Corporation, 1996-99
Archie W. Dunham
Business
1938   CEO of Conoco, 1996-2002
Gary W. Edwards
Business
c. 1942   EVP at Conoco, 1991-2001
Paul A. Friedman
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Incyte
J. Erik Fyrwald
Business
c. 1959   CEO of Nalco Holding
Richard R. Goodmanson
Business
1947   COO of DuPont
Alan J. Heeger
Physicist
22-Jan-1936   Metallic polymers
Charles O. Holliday, Jr.
Business
1948   CEO of DuPont, 1998-2008
John A. Krol
Business
16-Oct-1936   CEO of DuPont, 1995-98
Ellen J. Kullman
Business
1956   CEO of DuPont
Kurt M. Landgraf
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Educational Testing Service
Jeffrey M. Lipton
Business
5-Jul-1942   CEO of NOVA Chemicals, 1998-2009
George F. MacCormack
Business
1943   Former Group VP at DuPont
Steven R. McCracken
Business
1953 7-Feb-2008 CEO of Owens-Illinois, 2004-06
Keith R. McLoughlin
Business
10-Jun-1956   VP at Electrolux
Thomas Midgley
Chemist
18-May-1889 2-Nov-1944 Ethyl gasoline, Freon
Craig G. Naylor
Business
24-Nov-1948   Former DuPont VP
Russell W. Peterson
Politician
3-Oct-1916 21-Feb-2011 Governor of Delaware, 1969-73
Gary M. Pfeiffer
Business
c. 1949   CFO of DuPont, 1997-2006
Roy Plunkett
Chemist
26-Jun-1910 12-May-1994 Accidentally discovered Teflon
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
Business
24-Jun-1771 31-Oct-1834 Founder of DuPont
John J. Raskob
Business
12-Mar-1879 14-Oct-1950 Built the Empire State Building
Dennis H. Reilley
Business
1953   Chairman of Praxair, 2000-07
Arthur R. Sawchuk
Business
c. 1936   CEO of DuPont Canada, 1992-97
Richard U. De Schutter
Business
?   CEO of DuPont Pharmaceuticals, 2000-01
Susan M. Stalnecker
Business
c. 1951   VP and Treasurer at DuPont
Mark A. Suwyn
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Louisiana Pacific, 1996-2004

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Richard H. Brown
Business
c. 1947   CEO of EDS, 1999-2003
Robert A. Brown
Educator
22-Jul-1951   President, Boston University
Bertrand P. Collomb
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Lafarge SA, 1987-2003
Curtis J. Crawford
Business
c. 1947   President of XCEO
Alexander M. Cutler
Business
28-May-1951   CEO of Eaton
John T. Dillon
Business
7-Sep-1938   CEO of International Paper, 1996-2003
Thère du Pont
Business
c. 1966   CFO of Drugstore.com
Marillyn A. Hewson
Business
c. 1954   EVP at Lockheed Martin
Charles O. Holliday, Jr.
Business
1948   CEO of DuPont, 1998-2008
Lois D. Juliber
Business
c. 1949   COO of Colgate-Palmolive, 2000-04
Ellen J. Kullman
Business
1956   CEO of DuPont
Sean O'Keefe
Administrator
27-Jan-1956   NASA Administrator, 2001-05
William K. Reilly
Business
26-Jan-1940   EPA Administrator, 1989-93

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alain J. P. Belda
Business
23-Jun-1943   CEO of Alcoa
Andrew Brimmer
Economist
13-Sep-1926   Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Business
20-Jun-1929   CEO of Seagram's until 1994
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.
Business
8-Jan-1888 1976 President of DuPont, 1940-48
Archie W. Dunham
Business
1938   CEO of Conoco, 1996-2002
John A. Krol
Business
16-Oct-1936   CEO of DuPont, 1995-98
Masahisa Naitoh
Business
c. 1938   CEO of Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
Charles Vest
Educator
9-Sep-1941   President of MIT, 1990-2004
Sanford I. Weill
Business
16-Mar-1933   CEO of Citigroup, 1998-2003
John L. Weinberg
Business
25-Jan-1925 7-Aug-2006 Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1976-90

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Norman Borlaug
Scientist
25-Mar-1914 12-Sep-2009 Engineered disease-resistant wheat
Wallace Hume Carothers
Chemist
27-Apr-1896 29-Apr-1937 Inventor of Nylon
Paul J. Flory
Chemist
19-Jun-1910 9-Sep-1985 Studied polymers
Stephanie Kwolek
Chemist
31-Jul-1923   Invented Kevlar
Charles J. Pedersen
Chemist
3-Oct-1904 26-Oct-1989 Synthesis of crown ethers

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frank Baldino, Jr.
Business
13-May-1953 16-Dec-2010 Founder of Cephalon
Joseph Coors, Sr.
Business
12-Nov-1917 15-Mar-2003 Ultraconservative beer baron
Dave Cutler
Computer Programmer
13-Mar-1942   Father of Windows NT
Pete du Pont
Politician
22-Jan-1935   Governor of Delaware, 1977-85
Arthur H. Harper
Business
3-Dec-1955   CEO, GE Equipment Services 2002-05
Robert H. Jenkins
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Sundstrand, 1995-99
Ted Kaufman
Government
15-Mar-1939   TARP oversight panel
Marvin Olasky
Pundit
12-Jun-1950   The Tragedy of American Compassion
Tim Reid
Actor
19-Dec-1944   Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati
Richard R. Schrock
Chemist
4-Jan-1945   Metathesis
Earl Tupper
Business
28-Jul-1907 5-Oct-1983 Inventor of Tupperware
Vincent du Vigneaud
Chemist
18-May-1901 11-Dec-1978 Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
Sam Walton
Business
29-Mar-1918 5-Apr-1992 America's richest man, founded Wal-Mart
William Zeliff
Politician
12-Jun-1936   Congressman from New Hampshire, 1991-97

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frederick G. Cottrell
Inventor
10-Jan-1877 16-Nov-1948 Smokestack filters to fight pollution
John Diebold
Author
8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation
Roald Hoffmann
Chemist
18-Jul-1937   Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
James C. Humes
Government
31-Oct-1934   Speechwriter to five Presidents


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