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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
| 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
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
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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