DuPont announces board changes: Craig Naylor moves to a new post in Asia

DuPont announces board changes: Craig Naylor moves to a new post in Asia

DuPont is making across the board management changes to meet the objectives of the reorganisation plan it announced before Christmas. Under the changes announced this week, Craig Naylor, who has been heading the group’s Performance Materials platform, which includes the engineering polymers business, moves to Asia in the newly created post of group vice-president of AsiaPacific.

He is to be replaced by Jeffrey Keefer, who is currently vice-president and general manager of DuPont Titanium Technologies. Sam Severance, at present global manufacturing director of DuPont Titanium Technologies, succeeds Keefer.

Thomas Powell, global business director of DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers, moves to the position of president for DuPont Greater China. The group is also appointing John Hodgson to the new post of chief marketing and sales officer.