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Carol S. Eicher joined Rohm and Haas in 2000 as Business Director for the Organic Specialties business based in Philadelphia. She was named Americas General Manager for the Printed Wiring Board business of the wholly owned Shipley Company subsidiary based in Marlborough Massachusetts in 2001. She also was named a Vice President of Shipley. The following year Ms. Eicher’s responsibilities were expanded to include the European business as well.
In 2003 she returned to Philadelphia to become Business Director for the Process Chemicals business. She was elected a Vice President of Rohm and Haas Company that year. In January 2007 Ms. Eicher led the company’s newly formed Packaging and Building Materials business in North America which combined Rohm and Haas’s adhesives plastics additives and functional polymers businesses. She assumed her current role as Vice President and Business Director for Primary Materials in May 2007.
Ms. Eicher had an extensive career in the chemical industry before joining Rohm and Haas. She held various manufacturing positions during a 13-years career for DuPont. In 1983 she was part of the startup team for the Electronics Technology Center in Research Triangle Park North Carolina. In 1990 she moved to Wilmington Delaware to become global manufacturing director for High Performance Film.
In May 1992 Ms. Eicher joined the Ashland Chemical Division of Ashland Inc. In 1996 she became general manager of Refinery Petrochemicals and a Division Vice President. In 1998 her responsibilities were expanded to include the Engineering Department.
She holds a B.A. Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (1979) an MBA from the York College of Pennsylvania (1990) and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in 1997.
Ms. Eicher is Treasurer of the Fairmount Park Conservancy whose mission is to raise funds for the infrastructure improvement of the 9 000 acres of public green space owned by the City of Philadelphia. She is co-chair of the United Way Loaned Executive Committee and a member of the Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) United Way Campaign Committee. She has served as a United Way volunteer for more than 30 years.
Ms. Eicher lives in Wayne Pennsylvania with her husband and son. | 