Dr. Pipes has been a director of OMNOVA Solutions since October of 1999. His current term expires in 2006. He is a member of the Compensation and Corporate Governance Committee and the Executive Committee.
Dr. Pipes has been the John L. Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana since September 2004. Prior to that, Dr. Pipes was the Goodyear Professor of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio from December 2001 to August 2004. Previously, Dr. Pipes served as a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia from 1998 to 2001; Seventeenth President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York from 1993 to 1998; and Provost of the University of Delaware from 1991 to 1993 and Dean of the College of Engineering from 1985 to 1993. |