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Luis Fernandez joined Rohm and Haas Mexico in 1983 as assistant to the Operations Director. A year later, he became a production area manager for Plexiglas sheet in the Apizaco Plant. During the next decade, Mr. Fernandez held positions of increasing responsibility in marketing and business management, both in Philadelphia and Mexico City. By 1996, he was working in Sao Paulo, Brazil, running both the Specialty Polymers and Plastics businesses for all of Latin America. In 1999, Mr. Fernandez headed to Europe, first to become the regional business manager for Specialty Polymers out of the UK office, and later, to head the global Printing and Paper Technologies business, based in the Paris office.
Relocating to the corporate headquarters in 2001, Mr. Fernandez worked as the sales and marketing director for the company's single largest business segment, the $900 million Architectural and Functional Coatings business in North America.
Mr. Fernandez was elected a vice president and named regional director for Latin America in 2002. Returning to Philadelphia in 2004, he became Business Director for Plastics Additives. He assumed his Vice President and Business Unit Director titles in April 2005. He began his current role in January 2007.
Attending the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mr. Fernandez earned a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. He also attended the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Fernandez is fluent in four languages.
He and his wife, Martha, reside in Bluebell, Pennsylvania, with their two children. | 