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Gregory M. Freiwald assumed his current position as Corporate Vice President, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs and Aviation in January of 2008. He is a member of the Office of the Chairman, responsible for leading the interaction between the Directors of the Board with Management, and is the Secretary to the Compensation Committee of the Board. Freiwald also leads the Aviation function. He is a member of the Management Committee, Chairs the People team and member of the Geography team.
Freiwald joined Dow in 1979 in Buenos Aires Argentina as a Salary Administrator. He had several assignments in HR in Argentina and in Coral Gables, Florida. He later transferred to Midland as HR Manager for the Chemicals & Performance Business of the US Region.
Freiwald was the HR director for Executive, Finance and Law and Corporate from 1993-1994. He was responsible for all human resources matters related to planning, coordination and execution in those departments. In 1994, he was named Latin America HR and Quality Performance director, leading the HR function activities in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1996, Freiwald was named Latin America HR leader and PBB/Polishur HR integration leader, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 1997, he was the global HR Resource Center director, leading the HR function for technologies and geographies in Midland, MI. Freiwald was then named the senior HR director for the Global HR Resource Center and HR director for the Geographic Council from 2001-2004 located in Milan, Italy. In this role he lead the operations of the HR Function and provided strategic HR direction and counseling to the geographic team in coordination with the Geographic Counsel President. | 