Carol Dudley Corporate Vice President, Market Facing, Business Development & Licensing

As corporate vice president for Dow’s Market Facing, Business Development and Licensing Portfolio, Carol Dudley is charged with implementing new business models to deliver on Dow’s growth strategy. Unlike the products-offered approach or systems approach used by most Dow businesses, Dudley’s portfolio focuses on a solutions-based approach to meeting unmet needs in specific markets.  The portfolio includes Dow Automotive, Dow Building Solutions, Dow Coating Solutions, Dow Footwear, Dow Oil & Gas and several other potential market facing businesses still in development. Dudley’s portfolio also includes Dow Technology Licensing & Catalyst, and Ventures & Business Development.

Dudley joined Dow in 1980, starting as an engineer in R&D for plastic films and foams in the Granville Research Center.  In 1991, she worked at the Louisiana Operations facility on the development of styrene butadiene/isoprene block copolymers as part of a Dow/Exxon joint partnership.  In 1993, she took on the director’s role for the Analytical Science Lab in Midland, Michigan.  And in 1995, she moved to Texas as the global R&D director for the Epoxy Products and Intermediates Business.

Four years later, Dudley was named the North America Chlor-Alkali Assets business operations leader and site leader for Oyster Creek in Freeport, Texas, where she also served as chairperson of the CAER committee for Brazoria County.  She became business vice president for Chlor-Alkali Assets in 2000, and was named vice president of Global Purchasing in 2003.  The following year, Dudley became R&D vice president for Hydrocarbons & Energy, Chemicals & Intermediates and Core (Corporate R&D).

In 2005, she was named vice president of Business Development for Market Facing Businesses; and in 2006 she was named vice president of Research & Development for Dow’s Performance Plastics & Chemicals Portfolio.  Carol was named to her current role in 2007.

Dudley earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and has received an Executive MBA at Indiana University. She is an advisory board member for the Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and is a member of the Society of Women Engineers.

Rev. 03/28/2008