R. Byron Pipes

Corporate Officer/Principal at Purdue University

82 year

Consumer Services

Process Industries

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R.
Byron Pipes is a Member-Compensation and Corporate Governance and the Executive Committees of OMNOVA Solutions, Inc. He has been John L.
Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering of Purdue University since September 2004.
Prior to that, Dr. Pipes was Goodyear Professor of Polymer Engineering of the University of Akron from December 2001 to August 2004, a Distinguished Visiting Scientist of the College of William and Mary from 1998 to 2001, Seventeenth President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1993 to 1998 and Provost of the University of Delaware from 1991 to 1993 and Dean of the College of Engineering from 1985 to 1993.
He was a Director of OMNOVA Solutions, Inc. from October 1999 to September 11, 2008.

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Companies	Position	Start
Purdue University	Corporate Officer/Principal	31/08/2004

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Companies	Position	End
OMNOVA SOLUTIONS INC.	Director/Board Member	10/09/2008
University of Akron University of Akron Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services University of Akron provides public research education. Its programs include under graduate studies, graduate studies, international studies, law, and continuing education. The company was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Akron, OH.	Corporate Officer/Principal	31/07/2004
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	President	31/12/1997

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OMNOVA Solutions, Inc. OMNOVA Solutions, Inc. Chemicals: Major DiversifiedProcess Industries OMNOVA Solutions, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets emulsion polymers, specialty chemicals, and decorative products. It provides engineered surfaces for various commercial, industrial, and residential end uses. The company operates through the Specialty Solutions and Performance Materials segments. The Specialty Solutions segment develops, designs, produces, and markets a broad line of specialty products for use in coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, laminates, films, nonwovens, and oil & gas products. The Performance Materials segment serves mature markets including plastics, paper, carpet and coated fabrics with a broad range of polymers based primarily on styrene butadiene (SB), styrene butadiene acrylonitrile (SBA), styrene butadiene vinyl pyridine, high styrene pigments, polyvinyl acetate, acrylic, styrene acrylic, calcium stearate, glyoxal, and bio-based chemistries. The company was founded on October 1, 1999 and is headquartered in Beachwood, OH.	Process Industries