Owens Corning Names Gale Tedhams Director of Sustainability
December 18 2006 - 1:47PM
PR Newswire (US)
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Owens Corning
(NYSE:OC) recently named Gale Tedhams as its new director of
sustainability. She will report to Frank O'Brien-Bernini, vice
president of Science and Technology and Corporate Sustainability.
Ms. Tedhams will be responsible for leading and executing Owens
Corning's global sustainability strategy. She also will head the
Owens Corning Sustainability Council, which is comprised of key
leaders from each business unit and functional area across the
company. "Gale's leadership, manufacturing experience,
sustainability knowledge and overall business perspective prepares
her well for this important role," said Frank O'Brien-Bernini, vice
president of Science and Technology and Corporate Sustainability.
"As a company, we recognize and accept the responsibility of making
the planet a better place as a result of Owens Corning being in
business. Gale will lead our company's focus going forward, which
will remain concentrated on the areas where we can make a
significant sustainability impact. We remain focused on our
products and the value they deliver to the marketplace; our
processes and the progress being made to improve them; and our
people and their commitment to sustainability." Ms. Tedhams joined
Owens Corning in 1978 as an environmental engineer and has held
numerous leadership roles. She has delivered successful results
across several businesses and functional areas, including
manufacturing leadership in both the United States and Europe,
global diversity leadership, and most recently, product line
leadership as a program manager in the Insulating Systems business.
Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) is a world leader in building materials
systems and composite solutions. A Fortune 500 company for more
than 50 years, Owens Corning people redefine what is possible each
day to deliver high-quality products and services ranging from
insulation, roofing, siding and manufactured stone veneer, to glass
composite materials used in transportation, electronics,
telecommunications and other high-performance applications. Since
the company's founding in 1938, Owens Corning has become a
market-leading innovator of glass fiber technology with sales of
$6.3 billion in 2005 and 20,000 employees in 26 countries.
Additional information is available at
http://www.owenscorning.com/. DATASOURCE: Owens Corning CONTACT:
Jason Saragian of Owens Corning, +1-419-248-8987 Web site:
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