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Earl Shipp is President for Basic Chemicals of The Dow Chemical Company, serving on the Business Operations Committee and leading a group of six individual chemical businesses.
Shipp joined Dow in 1981 in Freeport, Texas, after intern assignments with Dow in Michigan and Texas. Between 1981 and 1985, he held several manufacturing positions, including an assignment in Japan. Since 1985, he has held leadership positions in Texas, Ohio and Missouri. In 2000, Shipp was named to the dual roles of Vice President and Site Director of Dow’s Louisiana Operations and Global Operations Director of the Propylene Oxide/Propylene Glycols business. He was named Global Business Vice President for Dow Oxides & Glycols in 2004, was named President for Dow’s India/Middle East/Africa region in 2006 and to his current position in March, 2007.
Shipp is Vice Chairman of the Board of the New Orleans Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is Deputy Chair of the Boards of EQUATE Petrochemical Company KSC, headquartered in Kuwait, and MEGlobal BV, headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Both ventures are with Petrochemical Industries of Kuwait.
Shipp has a bio-chemistry degree from Cass Technical High School, a chemical engineering degree from Wayne State University in Michigan, and is a graduate of the Indiana University Business School Consortium. | 