People: Chemtura Corp (CHMT.N)
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Craig Rogerson |
56 | 2008 | Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer |
Stephen Forsyth |
57 | 2009 | Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President |
Chet Cross |
54 | 2010 | Executive Vice President and Group President - Industrial Engineered and Performance Products |
Billie Flaherty |
55 | 2009 | Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary |
Alan Swiech |
54 | 2009 | Senior Vice President - Human Resources and Support Services |
Laurence Orton |
40 | 2012 | Vice President, Corporate Controller |
Dalip Puri |
40 | 2012 | Vice President - Investor Relations, Treasurer |
Timothy Bernlohr |
54 | 2010 | Lead Independent Director |
Jeffrey Benjamin |
51 | 2010 | Independent Director |
Anna Catalano |
53 | 2011 | Independent Director |
Alan Cooper |
50 | 2010 | Independent Director |
James Crownover |
69 | 2005 | Independent Director |
Robert Dover |
68 | 2011 | Independent Director |
Jonathan Foster |
52 | 2010 | Independent Director |
John Wulff |
64 | 2009 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Craig Rogerson |
Mr. Craig A. Rogerson serves as Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Chemtura Corp. Mr. Rogerson has served as Chemtura’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since December 2008. Mr. Rogerson had previously served as President, CEO and director of Hercules, Incorporated until its acquisition by Ashland, Incorporated on November 13, 2008. Mr. Rogerson joined Hercules in 1979 in the firm’s Water Management Chemicals Division. In April 1997 he left Hercules to join Wacker Silicones Corporation where he served as President and CEO. In May 2000 Mr. Rogerson rejoined Hercules as vice president business operations of their BetzDearborn Division eventually being named vice president and general manager of that division in August, 2000. Prior to being named CEO of Hercules in December 2003, Mr. Rogerson held a variety of senior management positions with the company including president of the FiberVisions and Pinova Divisions, vice president-global procurement and COO. Mr. Rogerson serves on the boards of directors of PPL Corporation, the Society of Chemical Industry and the American Chemistry Council. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Michigan State University's Chemical Engineering and Material Science school. Mr. Rogerson previously served on the boards of First State Innovation and the Delaware Business Roundtable. |
Stephen Forsyth |
Mr. Stephen C. Forsyth serves as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Chemtura Corp. Mr. Forsyth was also Treasurer from June 2007 to November 2008. Previously, Mr. Forsyth served for 26 years with Hexcel Corporation in a variety of executive capacities, most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. |
Chet Cross |
Mr. Chet H. Cross serves as Executive Vice President and Group President - Industrial Engineered and Performance Products of Chemtura Corp., since September 2010. From January 2010 to September 2010, Mr. Cross served as Group President - Engineered Products. From December 2008 to January 2010, Mr. Cross was Vice President of Operations of Ashland Inc’s Ashland Hercules Water Technologies division. Previously, Mr. Cross served for over 20 years with Hercules Incorporated in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as General Manager of Hercules’ Americas pulp and paper business and President of Hercules Canada. |
Billie Flaherty |
Ms. Billie S. Flaherty serves as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Chemtura Corp. Previously, Ms. Flaherty served as Associate General Counsel for Chemtura, having joined Chemtura in October 2005. Prior to joining Chemtura, she served as Vice President, Environmental, Health and Safety for Pitney Bowes Inc. |
Alan Swiech |
Mr. Alan M. Swiech serves as Senior Vice President - Human Resources and Support Services of Chemtura Corp., since January 2009. Previously Mr. Swiech served as Vice President, Human Resources for Chemtura, having joined Chemtura in April 2006. Prior to joining Chemtura Mr. Swiech served as Vice President - Administration for Akebono Corporation NA, and President of AMAK LLC. Before that he served as Vice President, Human Resources for Cambridge Industries Inc. and various positions of increasing responsibility with United Technologies Corporation. |
Laurence Orton |
Mr. Laurence Orton serves as Vice President, Corporate Controller of Chemtura Corp., since November 9, 2012. Mr. Orton was also Vice President, Finance & Investor Relations from 2010 to November 2012, Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis from 2008 to 2010 and Business Chief Financial Officer of the Performance Specialties Segment from 2006 to 2008. Previously, Mr. Orton served for 7 years with Avecia Group Plc and predecessor company Astra Zeneca. |
Dalip Puri |
Mr. Dalip Puri serves as Vice President - Investor Relations, Treasurer of Chemtura Corp., since November 2012. He served as Vice President and Treasurer since November 2010. Prior to joining Chemtura, Mr. Puri served as Corporate Treasurer of Hewitt Associates. Before that he served for 7 years with Delphi Corporation in various positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Global Treasury Director. |
Timothy Bernlohr |
Mr. Timothy J. Bernlohr serves as Lead Independent Director of Chemtura Corp., since November 2010. He is the founder and managing member of TJB Management Consulting, LLC, which specializes in providing project specific consulting services to businesses in transformation, including restructurings, interim executive management and strategic planning services. He founded the consultancy in 2005. Mr. Bernlohr is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of RBX Industries, Inc. RBX® was sold to multiple buyers in 2004 and 2005. Prior to joining RBX® in 1997, Mr. Bernlohr spent 16 years in the International and Industry Products division of Armstrong World Industries, where he served in a variety of management positions. Mr. Bernlohr currently serves as a director (since 2006) and as a member of the audit and nominating & governance committees of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., a provider of air cargo and outsourced aircraft operating solutions, and as a director (since 2011) and member of the compensation and nomination & governance committees of Rock Tenn Corporation, a manufacturer and marketer of corrugated packaging materials (both publicly-held companies). Mr. Bernlohr is also chairman of Champion Home Builders, Inc., chairman of The Manischewitz Company, and lead director of Contech Engineered Solutions (all privately-held companies). Within the last five years, Mr. Bernlohr was a director of WCI Steel, Inc., Smurfit Stone Container Corporation, Ambassadors International Inc., and Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc. (all publicly-held companies). Mr. Bernlohr is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University. |
Jeffrey Benjamin |
Mr. Jeffrey D. Benjamin serves as Independent Director of Chemtura Corp., since November 2010. He has served as Senior Advisor to Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P., a registered investment adviser, since June 2008. Mr. Benjamin also serves as a consultant to Apollo Management, L.P., a private investment fund, and from September 2002 to June 2008 served as a Senior Advisor to Apollo Management. Mr. Benjamin currently serves as a director (since 2005) and as a member of the audit, compensation, and nominating & corporate governance committees of Exco Resources, Inc., a producer of natural gas and oil, and as a director (since 2008) of Caesars Entertainment Corporation, a provider of branded casino entertainment. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Spectrum Group International, Inc. (where he has been a director since 2009), a precious metals trading and collectibles company. Within the last five years, Mr. Benjamin was a director of Virgin Media Inc. and Goodman Global Inc. (both publicly-held companies). Mr. Benjamin holds a Master of Science in Management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, with a concentration in Finance, and has more than 25 years of investment banking and investment management experience. |
Anna Catalano |
Ms. Anna C. Catalano serves as Independent Director of Chemtura Corp. She was Group Vice President, Marketing for BP from 2000 through 2003. Prior to that she held various executive positions in BP and Amoco, including Group Vice President, Emerging Markets at BP, Senior Vice President, Sales and Operations at Amoco and President of Amoco Orient Oil Company. Ms. Catalano currently serves as a director and as a member of the corporate governance and compensation committees of Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (since 2010), as a director and as a member of the risk management and corporate governance and nominating committees of Willis Group Holdings PLC (since 2006), a provider of insurance brokerage, reinsurance and risk management consulting services and as a director and member of the compensation committee of Kraton Performance Polymers. Ms. Catalano also serves on the board of the Houston Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, and as an advisory board member of the Kellogg Innovation Network of Northwestern University. Ms. Catalano formerly served on the boards of SSL International plc, Hercules Incorporated and Aviva plc. Ms. Catalano holds a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. |
Alan Cooper |
Mr. Alan S. Cooper serves as Independent Director of Chemtura Corp., since November 2010. He is a founder and Managing Partner of Jet Capital, a private investment firm specializing in risk arbitrage, capital structure arbitrage and other event-driven investing. Jet Capital was founded in 2002. From 2000 through 2002, Mr. Cooper was a Principal of Redwood Capital Management, a hedge fund, where he was responsible for portfolio management, research and trading for risk arbitrage investing. Mr. Cooper was also responsible for marketing, investor relations and back office operations. From 1992 through 2000, Mr. Cooper was General Counsel and beginning in 1994 Vice President of Dickstein Partners, Inc., a hedge fund, responsible for risk arbitrage analysis, investor relations, compliance and back office operations. Mr. Cooper was an attorney at the law firm of Rosenman & Colin (1983-1991) where he specialized in corporate and securities law, including public and private offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He previously served as a director, as chairman of the governance committee and as a member of the compensation committee of Dade Behring Holdings Inc. and as a director of Younkers Stores, Hills Department Stores Inc., Banyan Strategic Land Fund II and Specialty Catalogue, Inc. Mr. Cooper serves as a Trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Mr. Cooper is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. |
James Crownover |
Mr. James W. Crownover is Independent Director of Chemtura Corp. Mr. Crownover retired in 1998 as a director of McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. During his 30 year career with McKinsey, Mr. Crownover served as director, as head of its southwest practice and as co-head of its worldwide energy practice working with clients in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S. His practice focused on business strategy, operations and organizational structure. Mr. Crownover has served on the board of Republic Services, Inc., a provider of solid waste collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services, since 2008 and currently is Chairman of the Board. He previously served as a director, as a member of the audit committee and as chairman of the governance committee of Allied Waste Industries, which merged into Republic Services, and as chairman of the audit and pension committees of Unocal Corporation, an energy exploration and production company. Mr. Crownover also serves as a director, as chairman of the compensation committee, and as a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee of FTI Consulting, Inc. (since 2006), a global business advisory firm. He serves as a director, as chairman of the governance committee, and as a member of the compensation committee of Weingarten Realty Investors (since 2001), an owner, manager and operator of commercial real estate. Mr. Crownover served as a director of Great Lakes (prior to the merger of Great Lakes and Chemtura) from 2002 to 2005, including as presiding director. Mr. Crownover also serves as Chairman of the board of trustees of Rice University and as a director of the Houston Grand Opera. In 1966, Mr. Crownover received his BS cum laude in chemical engineering from Rice University. He also received an MBA in 1968 from Stanford Business School. |
Robert Dover |
Mr. Robert A. Dover serves as Independent Director of Chemtura Corp., since November 1, 2011. Mr. Dover joined the automotive industry in 1968 and, over his career, has held senior positions with British Leyland, Land Rover, Jaguar Cars and Massey Ferguson, culminating with his service from 2000 to 2004 as Chairman and CEO of Jaguar Land Rover Limited (currently a unit of Tata Motors). While in these roles, Mr. Dover was responsible for the Jaguar XK8 sports car program and oversaw the Land Rover Discovery project. Since 2004, Mr. Dover has been engaged as an independent consultant to UK and international businesses and involved in a number of not-for-profit initiatives and board assignments. He currently serves as chairman and a director of Autoscan Ltd., a privately held UK-based third party consultant business, and SinterCast, a Sweden-based corporation which provides on-line process control technology to the cast iron/foundry industry (both publicly-held companies). From 2009 to January 2012, he also served as a director and on the compensation & benefits committee of Hayes Lemmerz International, a manufacturer of automotive and commercial highway products. Mr. Dover is a director of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, Chairman of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Manchester and acts as Visiting Professor of Engineering at Coventry University and Industrial Professor of Manufacturing at Warwick University. |
Jonathan Foster |
Mr. Jonathan F. Foster is Independent Director of Chemtura Corp. He is a Managing Director of Current Capital LLC., a private equity and portfolio company management firm focused primarily on lower middle market industrial and business services companies. Mr. Foster currently serves as a director, as chairman of the audit committee and as a member of the finance committee of Masonite Inc. and as a director and as a member of the audit and nominating & governance committees of Lear Corporation. He is also a trustee of the New York Power Authority, the state-owned power organization in the U.S. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Foster was Managing Director and Co-Head of Diversified Industrials & Services at Wachovia Securities. From 2005 through 2007, he was Executive Vice President of Finance and Business Development at Revolution Living, one of three business groups in the Revolution family of companies founded by Steve Case, co-founder of AOL. Previously, from 2002 through 2004, Mr. Foster served as a Managing Director of The Cypress Group, a private equity investment firm, where he led the industrial and services group. Mr. Foster also served as Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Co. from 2001 through 2002 where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions in industrial products and services. During 2000, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Toysrus.com. Previously, from 1988 through 1999, Mr. Foster was at Lazard LLC, ultimately as a Managing Director, where he worked on a wide range of mainly industrial and services mergers and acquisitions transactions. |
John Wulff |
Mr. John K. Wulff serves as Independent Director of Chemtura Corp., since October 2009. He is the former Chairman of Hercules Inc., a manufacturer of specialty chemical products, a position he held from July 2003 until Ashland, Inc.’s acquisition of Hercules in November 2008. Prior to that time, he served as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Wulff was previously Chief Financial Officer of Union Carbide Corporation (“Union Carbide”) from 1995 to 2001. During his 14 years at Union Carbide, a manufacturer of chemicals and polymers, he also served as Vice President and Principal Accounting Officer from 1989 to 1995, and as Controller from 1987 to 1989. Mr. Wulff was also a partner of KPMG and predecessor firms from 1977 to 1987. He currently serves as a director (since 2004), as chairman of the governance & compensation committee, and as a member of the audit and MIS committees of Moody’s Corporation. He is also a director (since 2006) and member of the audit and nominating & corporate governance committees of Celanese Corporation, a global manufacturer of industrial chemicals. Mr. Wulff previously served as a director of Sunoco, Inc. from 2004 to 2012 and of Fannie Mae from December 2004 until September 2008. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Craig Rogerson |
7,614,360 |
Stephen Forsyth |
2,154,740 |
Chet Cross |
1,682,230 |
Billie Flaherty |
1,516,550 |
Alan Swiech |
1,358,000 |
Laurence Orton |
-- |
Dalip Puri |
-- |
Timothy Bernlohr |
-- |
Jeffrey Benjamin |
-- |
Anna Catalano |
-- |
Alan Cooper |
-- |
James Crownover |
-- |
Robert Dover |
-- |
Jonathan Foster |
-- |
John Wulff |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Craig Rogerson |
0 | 0 |
Stephen Forsyth |
0 | 0 |
Chet Cross |
0 | 0 |
Billie Flaherty |
0 | 0 |
Alan Swiech |
0 | 0 |
Laurence Orton |
0 | 0 |
Dalip Puri |
0 | 0 |
Timothy Bernlohr |
0 | 0 |
Jeffrey Benjamin |
0 | 0 |
Anna Catalano |
0 | 0 |
Alan Cooper |
0 | 0 |
James Crownover |
0 | 0 |
Robert Dover |
0 | 0 |
Jonathan Foster |
0 | 0 |
John Wulff |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
SWIECH ALAN M |
1,063 | $21.61 |
ROGERSON CRAIG A |
12,760 | $21.61 |
ORTON LAURENCE MICHAEL |
390 | $21.61 |
CROSS CHET |
1,771 | $21.61 |
ORTON LAURENCE MICHAEL |
178 | $21.61 |
FORSYTH STEPHEN C |
2,213 | $21.61 |
FLAHERTY BILLIE S |
1,240 | $21.61 |
PURI DALIP |
87 | $21.61 |
SWIECH ALAN M |
1,415 | $22.23 |
ROGERSON CRAIG A |
16,899 | $22.23 |
FORSYTH STEPHEN C |
3,116 | $22.23 |
FLAHERTY BILLIE S |
1,785 | $22.23 |
PURI DALIP |
361 | $22.23 |
CROSS CHET |
1,880 | $22.23 |
ORTON LAURENCE MICHAEL |
410 | $22.23 |
DOVER ROBERT A |
4,390 | $0.00 |
CROSS CHET |
10,732 | $0.00 |
WULFF JOHN K |
4,390 | $0.00 |
CROWNOVER JAMES W |
4,390 | $0.00 |
ROGERSON CRAIG A |
15,137 | $20.50 |
CROSS CHET |
2,850 | $20.50 |
CATALANO ANNA CHENG |
4,390 | $0.00 |
BENJAMIN JEFFREY D |
4,390 | $0.00 |
ORTON LAURENCE MICHAEL |
3,610 | $0.00 |
BERNLOHR TIMOTHY J |
4,390 | $0.00 |

