Keith Cleason
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Keith Cleason
President, Packaging & Specialty Plastics;
Keith Cleason is President of Dow’s Packaging & Specialty Plastics (P&SP) business operating segment, which consists of the Packaging and Specialty Plastics commercial business and Olefins, Aromatics & Alternatives (OAA) hydrocarbons business. He is a member of the company’s leadership team and has oversight of Latin America.
With annual sales of more than $23 billion, P&SP is widely recognized as the world’s largest materials suppliers of polyethylene resins and functional polymers used in a wide variety of applications for key growth markets like food packaging, supply chain packaging, health and hygiene, infrastructure, and consumer goods. Built on a solid foundation of operational discipline with versatile process technology, P&SP consistently ranks as a top quartile performer amongst its industry peers, delivering disruptive, award-winning innovation that meets customers’ expectations on performance and sustainability. P&SP’s products and solutions can enable a circular economy at lower carbon impact.
Cleason joined Dow in 2001, as the North American Product Director for Gas Phase PE, as part of the merger transaction with Union Carbide Corporation. During his career, he has served in a wide range of roles across the ethylene envelope including Senior Global Asset Director for Polyethylene (PE), Global Business Director for both Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) and High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), and as PE’s Global Supply Chain Director. Cleason was also the Global Strategic Development Director for P&SP and was responsible for leading P&SP’s participation in corporate growth strategies to include project oversight on new manufacturing investments for the business as well as supervising the new business development teams.
Most recently Cleason was the Business Vice President for Olefins, Aromatics & Alternatives (OA&A) and Univation Technologies, Dow’s wholly owned subsidiary for licensing and catalysts. He was responsible for safely and reliably supplying low-cost monomers to Dow’s downstream businesses. The OA&A business is also responsible for the development of new technologies that drive greater efficiency and reduce the environmental footprint of these operations.
Cleason holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from The University of Fredonia, New York (NY), and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Buffalo, NY. In 2005, he graduated from the Executive Management Program at Thunderbird, Garvin School of International Management.