Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cabot Corporation, a global specialty chemicals company. He has been Chief Executive Officer of Cabot Corporation since 2001 and President since 1995. Prior to joining Cabot Corporation in 1987, Mr. Burnes, age 62, was a partner at the Boston-based law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart, where he specialized in corporate and business law for nearly 20 years. He is a director of Cabot Corporation and J. K. Adams Co., Inc., and is a member of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute's Board of Trustees. Mr. Burnes is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Schepens Eye Research Institute. Mr. Burnes holds both an LL.B. and B.A. degree from Harvard University.
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