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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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