Leadership
DRIVING ALBEMARLE’S STRATEGY
Albemarle’s team is made up of over 4,100 dedicated professionals coming from diverse backgrounds with cross-industry experience. They provide today’s leaders with innovative and insightful business-minded solutions that help address the Company’s most pressing competitive challenges. This synergistic culture starts at the top and is driven by our senior leadership team. Each member of the team exemplifies the core values that have helped make Albemarle a global leader in the specialty chemicals industry today.
Here’s a snapshot of each member of our senior leadership team.
Luther C. "Luke" Kissam, Chief Executive Officer
.jpg) Download Bio PDF | Luther C. Kissam, IV (“Luke”) serves as Chief Executive Officer of Albemarle, a role he was elected to in July 2011. Mr. Kissam has also served on Albemarle's Board of Directors since November 2011. Mr. Kissam joined Albemarle and was elected Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary on September 2003. In January 2008, he became Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and Law, and Corporate Secretary. Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Kissam served as President where he oversaw all aspects of the company’s global business and operational activities. Before joining Albemarle, Mr. Kissam served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Merisant Co. (manufacturer and marketer of sweetener and consumer food products), having previously served as Associate General Counsel of Monsanto Company (provider of agricultural products and solutions). |
Dr. David W. Clary, Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer
 Download Bio PDF | Dr. David W. Clary serves as Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer of Albemarle Corporation. In this role, Dr. Clary oversees the company's technology groups to accelerate the creation and commercialization of socially and environmentally sound products. He manages all aspects of Albemarle's global advocacy efforts to raise awareness of the safety and performance of the company's existing products, and also ensures that future products meet or surpass societal criteria. With over 20 years experience in process technology, research and development, and business management, Dr. Clary most recently served as Division Vice President of Albemarle’s Fine Chemistry Services group. |
Matthew K. Juneau, Vice President, Polymer Solutions
 Download Bio PDF | Matthew K. Juneau was promoted to Vice President, Polymer Solutions, effective March 1, 2012. In this role, Mr. Juneau leads all aspects of the Polymer group's operations, research and product innovation, and business development activities, which include fire safety products in 100 countries and extensive operations in China. During his tenure, Mr. Juneau has held numerous technical and commercial roles of increasing responsibility, including: Global Business Director, Polymer Additives and Intermediates; Polymer Chemicals Sales Director, Americas; Regional Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Division Vice President, Performance Chemicals. Prior to assuming this role Mr. Juneau served as Vice President, Global Sales and Services since April 2009. Mr. Juneau is a native of Louisiana and received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1982. Mr. Juneau and his wife, Melissa, have four children, Matthew, Claire, David, and Stephen. |
Susan M. Kelliher, Sr. Vice President, Human Resources
 Download Bio PDF | Susan M. Kelliher was named Senior Vice President, Human Resources, effective March 5, 2012. In this role, she leads all aspects of Albemarle's global human resources functions, including recruiting and retaining a world-class workforce and providing leadership, management and strategic advice on Albemarle's people processes, systems and capabilities in support of the company's strategies. With over 20 years of human resources experience, Mrs. Kelliher has an impressive background in all human resources disciplines, including organizational change and effectiveness, talent acquisition and development of people. She has extensive experience in integration of acquisitions and workforce planning and has led a number of global organizations in her career. Mrs. Kelliher most recently served as Vice President, Human Resources - Global Sales and Enterprise Marketing at Hewlett Packard where she led a team of 30 human resources professionals. Mrs. Kelliher received a B.A. degree in Asian Studies and Political Science from Rice Unversity and her M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. She and her husband, John, have one daughter. |
Scott Martin, Vice President, Fine Chemistry
.JPG) Download Bio PDF | Scott Martin is Vice President, Fine Chemistry of Albemarle, a role he was promoted to in March 2012. In this role, Mr. Martin is responsible for creating and executing strategy for this global business unit and for driving the group's financial results. Mr. Martin joined Albemarle in 2001 through the acquisition of custom and fine chemicals company, ChemFirst Fine Chemicals, and subsequently consolidated the company's agricultural and pharmaceutical products into the Fine Chemistry Services division. Four years later, he became Division Vice President of Polyolefin Catalysts (now re-named Performance Catalyst Solutions) where he served until he assumed responsibility for the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Catalysts and Additives division in 2007. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Hydroprocessing Catalysts.Mr. Martin earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Mississippi State University..
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Amy H. Motto, Vice President, Catalysts
 Download Bio PDF | Amy H. Motto was promoted to Vice President of Catalysts, effective June 11, 2012.
As Vice President, Ms. Motto is responsible for all aspects of the Catalysts global business unit, including creating and executing long-term business development strategies and managing the group’s financial wellbeing.
Since joining Albemarle in 1995, Ms. Motto has successfully held a number of roles of increasing responsibility. Her tenure with the company began at Albemarle’s Orangeburg, South Carolina facility where she worked in process design, plant support and manufacturing.
She subsequently spent three years in Albemarle’s Thann, France facility in a similar role. Upon returning to the U.S., Ms. Motto transferred to Albemarle’s Sales division and rapidly moved into a business management role in the Catalysts group. Over the past four years, Ms. Motto has progressed from Business Manager of Catalysts and Components to Vice President of Catalysts.
Before assuming her new role, Ms. Motto served as Vice President of Albemarle’s Performance Catalyst Solutions (PCS) Division.
Under Ms. Motto’s leadership, PCS became one of the fasting growing divisions at Albemarle.
She oversaw a rapidly expanding portfolio of polymer catalysts, chemical catalysts, and high purity metal organics. Ms. Motto received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994.
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Karen G. Narwold, Sr. Vice President & General Counsel
 Download Bio PDF | Karen G. Narwold serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Albemarle. In this role, Mrs. Narwold is responsible for all legal matters related to the corporation. Mrs. Narwold has over 20 years of experience with industrial and chemical companies. After practicing private law for five years, she served as Vice President, General Counsel, Human Resources and Secretary of GrafTech International Ltd., a global graphite and carbon manufacturer and former subsidiary of Union Carbide. She then served as Vice President and Strategic Counsel of Barzel Industries, a North American steel processor and distributor. Most recently, Mrs. Narwold served as Special Counsel with Kelley Drye & Warren LLP and with Symmetry Advisors where she worked in the areas of strategic, financial and capital structure planning and restructuring for public and private companies. Mrs. Narwold graduated summa cum laude and received her B.A. from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. She graduated with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1986. |
Anthony S. “Tony” Parnell, Vice President, Sales and Global Supply Chain
 Download Bio PDF | Anthony S. “Tony” Parnell was named Vice President, Sales and Global Supply Chain, effective March 1, 2012. In this role, Mr. Parnell oversees all aspects of Albemarle's global supply chain, including sales, procurement and logistics. A chemical industry veteran with over 25 years of international experience in global sales, business management and development activities, Mr. Parnell joined Albemarle (then the Specialty Chemicals division of Ethyl Corporation) in July 1982. During his tenure at Albemarle, Mr. Parnell has held many notable positions including Managing Director of the company’s European and Middle East Operations and Vice President, Sales. Most recently, he served as Vice President - Polymer Solutions. Mr. Parnell graduated from Mississippi State University with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. He has recently served as a board representative on the Baton Rouge Arts Council and is currently a board member of Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge. |
Scott A. Tozier, Sr. Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
 Download Bio PDF | Scott A. Tozier was elected Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in February 2011. He is responsible for all financial and fiscal management aspects of the company’s operations. Mr. Tozier is a certified public accountant and has over 20 years of diversified international financial management experience. Prior to joining Albemarle, Mr. Tozier served as Vice President of Finance, Transformation and Operations of Honeywell International, Inc. where he was responsible for the company’s global financial shared services and best practices management. His 16-year career with Honeywell spanned senior financial positions in the United States, Asia Pacific and Europe. His increasingly progressive roles included management of financial planning, analysis and reporting; global credit and treasury services and Chief Financial Officer of Honeywell’s Transportation Systems, Turbo Technologies, Building Solutions and Process Solutions divisions. Prior to Honeywell, he worked for four years in Ernst & Young’s assurance services practice. |
Ron C. Zumstein, Vice President, Manufacturing
 Download Bio PDF | Dr. Ronald C. Zumstein was elected Vice President of Manufacturing for Albemarle, effective March 15, 2010. In this role, Dr. Zumstein manages all aspects of the company’s global manufacturing operations, technology resources and corporate engineering across all Albemarle and Albemarle-affiliated facilities. With over 20 years of experience at Albemarle, Dr. Zumstein has successfully held a wide variety of positions with increasing responsibility, including roles in research and development, process and product development, and plant management at several of the Company’s plant sites. Most recently, Dr. Zumstein served as Vice President of Manufacturing Operations and previous to that role, he served as Albemarle’s Vice President of Health, Safety and Environment. Dr. Zumstein has also served as Vice President of Manufacturing for the Company’s Polymer Additives division. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Dr. Zumstein received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University. |
Last Updated: 9/7/2012 2:47:41 PM
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