Cabot Corporation Announces Changes to Board of Directors
September 15, 2023 at 12:52 pm EDT
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Cabot Corporation announced that Michelle Williams, Ph.D., has been elected to its Board of Directors, effective September 13, 2023. She was also appointed a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, effective September 13, 2023. Prior to her retirement in 2021, Dr. Williams was Global Group President of Altuglas International, a manufacturer of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) anda subsidiary of Arkema S.A., a manufacturer of specialty chemicals and advanced materials. Dr. Williams has been a Director of Brady Corporation, a manufacturer and supplier of identification solutions and workplace safety products, since 2019, where she serves as Chair of the Technology Committee and a member of the Management Development and Compensation and Corporate Governance Committees. With Dr. Williams? election to the Board, Sue Rataj advised the Company that she would be retiring from the Board effective May 31, 2024. Ms. Rataj has served as a director of Cabot since 2011. In addition to her role as Non-Executive Chair, which she has held since March 2018, Ms. Rataj currently serves as Chair of the Governance and Nominating and the Executive Committees. To ensure a smooth leadership transition, Ms. Rataj will step down as Non-Executive Chair effective October 1, 2023, and will remain Chair of the Governance and Nominating and Executive Committees until her retirement from the Board. Michael Morrow, who has served as a director of Cabot since 2017 and who currently serves as Chair of Cabot?s Audit Committee, has been elected
Non-Executive Chair of the Board effective October 1, 2023. With these appointments, effective October 1, 2023, Mr. Morrow will step down as Chair and a member of the Company?s Audit Committee, and Frank (?Andy?) Wilson has
been elected Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Wilson will also join the Company?s Governance and Nominating Committee at this time.
Cabot Corporation is a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company. The Company operates through two segments: Reinforcement Materials and Performance Chemicals. The Reinforcement Materials segment combines reinforcing carbons, engineered elastomer composites and EVOLVE Sustainable Solutions product. The reinforcing carbons products are used in tires and industrial products. In Performance Chemicals, it designs, manufacture and sell materials that deliver performance in a range of customer applications across the automotive, construction, infrastructure, inkjet printing, electronics, and consumer products sectors and in applications related to the generation, transmission and storage of energy. The Performance Chemicals segment combine specialty carbons, specialty compounds, battery materials, fumed metal oxides, aerogel and inkjet product lines. Its products include Carbon black, specialty carbons, battery materials, fumed silica, aerogel and inkjet colorants.
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