Dow Names Joe Harlan President of the Performance Products & Performance Systems Division and Executive Vice President of Dow
August 01 2011 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) announced today that Joe
Harlan will join the company as president of the Performance
Products and Performance Systems Division and an executive vice
president of Dow. He will join Dow’s Executive Leadership Committee
and report to Andrew Liveris, chairman and CEO. He will assume his
new role on September 1.
Harlan joins Dow from 3M where he was executive vice president
of Consumer and Office Business. He will relocate from St Paul,
Minnesota to Midland, Michigan.
“I am extremely excited to have Joe join our Company,” said
Liveris. “His in-depth experience in downstream markets, proven
leadership abilities, exceptional international business experience
and a track record of delivering results will bring a new
perspective to our Performance Products and Performance Systems
Division to take it to the next level of performance and continue
to advance our transformational strategy for our Company. Joe is a
proven business executive and I am confident he will add energy and
drive to our Corporate Growth Agenda. I welcome him to the Dow
family."
Harlan came to 3M from General Electric in 2001. He joined 3M as
vice president, Financial Planning. He then spent two years in
Japan with Sumitomo 3M Limited, its Japanese subsidiary, where he
served first as executive vice president, and then as president and
chairman of the board. He became executive vice president of 3M
Electro and Communications Business based in Austin, Texas, in
2004. He was named to his current executive position at 3M in
2009.
Prior to coming to 3M, Harlan spent 20 years with General
Electric, where he held various finance and business development
positions in their Plastics, Appliance and Medical Systems
businesses, eventually serving as vice president and CFO of General
Electric Lighting.
Harlan has lived and worked in North America, Europe, and Asia
during his career.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Flowserve
Corporation.
Harlan graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana
with a bachelor’s degree in Finance.
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with the "Human Element" to passionately innovate what is essential
to human progress. The Company connects chemistry and innovation
with the principles of sustainability to help address many of the
world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water,
renewable energy generation and conservation, and increasing
agricultural productivity. Dow's diversified industry-leading
portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences
and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based
products and solutions to customers in approximately
160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics,
water, energy, coatings and agriculture. In 2010, Dow had annual
sales of $53.7 billion and employed approximately
50,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 5,000
products are manufactured at 188 sites in 35 countries
across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow
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