David N. Weidman has been our Chief Executive Officer and President and a member of our Board of Directors since December 2004. Until October 2004 Mr. Weidman was a member of the Board of Management of Celanese AG and had served as its Vice Chairman since September 2003 and its Chief Operating Officer since January 2002. He joined Celanese AG as the Chief Executive Officer of Celanese Chemicals in September 2000. Before joining Celanese AG he had been a member of Honeywell/Allied Signal�s Corporate Executive Council and the President of its performance polymers business since 1998. Mr. Weidman joined Allied Signal in 1994 as Vice President and General Manager of Performance Additives
and became President and General Manager of Fluorine Products in 1995. Mr. Weidman began his career in the chemical industry with American Cyanamid in 1980 serving as Vice President and General Manager of its fibers division from 1990 to 1994 as Vice President and General Manager of Cyanamid Canada from 1989 to 1990 and as Managing Director of Cyanamid Nordiska in Stockholm Sweden from 1987 to 1989. He is also a board member of the American Chemistry Council and the National Advisory Council of the Marriott School of
Management and is the Honorary Secretary of the Society of Chemical Industry. |