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Carol Dudley is corporate vice president for Dow’s Market Facing Businesses, Licensing and New Business Development. In this role, Carol is responsible for Dow Automotive, Dow Building Solutions, Coatings, Cleaning and Footwear market facing businesses, as well as Dow’s Licensing and New Business Development groups. She is also a member of the Business Operations Committee and the Market Facing Steering Team for the Company.
Dudley joined Dow in 1980 as an engineer in R&D for plastic films and foams in the Granville Research Center. In 1991, Dudley worked in a Dow/Exxon joint partnership in the development of styrene butadiene/isoprene block copolymers at the Company’s Louisiana Operations facility. In 1993, she served as laboratory director for the Analytical Science Lab in Midland, Michigan. In 1995, Dudley moved to Texas as the global R&D director for the Epoxy Products and Intermediates Business.
Dudley was named the North America Chlor-Alkali Assets business operations leader and site leader for Oyster Creek at Dow Chemical in Freeport, Texas in 1999. In that role, she also was the chairperson of the CAER committee for Brazoria County. She became business vice president for Chlor-Alkali Assets in 2000, and was named vice president of Global Purchasing in 2003. Dudley became R&D vice president for Hydrocarbons & Energy, Chemicals & Intermediates and Core (Corporate R&D) in 2004. In 2005 she was named vice president of Business Development for Market Facing Units; and in 2006 she was named vice president of Research & Development for Dow’s Performance Plastics & Chemicals Portfolio. Carol was named to her current role in 2007.
Dudley earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has received an Executive MBA at Indiana University. She is an advisory board member for the Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and is a member of the Society of Women Engineers. Carol has one married daughter and one daughter attending college. | 