Heinz Haller Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

Heinz Haller is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of The Dow Chemical Company. He is responsible for corporate Marketing & Sales and all new business growth activities including joint ventures and subsidiaries. He is also Dow's lead representative at Dow Corning and Dow Kokam and has oversight for Dow AgroSciences. In addition, he has oversight of Dow's presence in the Asia Pacific and Latin American regions as well as Dow's new Olympics Business Unit.

He is a member of Dow's Executive Leadership Committee, the Business Operations Team and the Strategy and Portfolio Team.

Haller joined Dow in 1980 as a sales representative in Horgen, Switzerland and developed his career in several marketing and commercial roles across many Dow businesses including Emulsion Polymers, Specialty Chemicals and Chlorinated Solvents.

In 1994, Haller left Dow and joined the chemical distribution company, Plüss-Staufer AG, as Managing Director, a position he held for five years before being appointed Chief Executive Officer of Red Bull Sauber AG and Sauber Petronas Engineering AG. In March 2002, he moved to Allianz Capital Partners GmbH as one of the company's Managing Directors and remained there for four years until he rejoined Dow.

Haller returned to Dow in June 2006 and assumed an executive leadership role in a variety of areas including one in Performance Products. He was named to his current role in August 2010.

He is Chairman of the Dow Kokam Board and the Dow AgroSciences Members Committee, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the Dow Corning Corporation, the Michigan Molecular Institute, and the U.S. India Business Council.

Haller holds a master's degree in business administration from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland and earned a certification in the advanced executive program from UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

Revised: 02/15/2011