Mr. Powers has been our Senior Vice President, Performance & Essential Materials Segment Head since April 2026. From May 2025 to March 2026, Mr. Powers served as our Vice President, Epoxy. Prior to joining Westlake, Mr. Powers was Vice President, Americas Region for Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), from May 2022 to May 2025. From January 2020 to May 2022, he served as President and Managing Director of Memcor Australia, a DuPont company, and from March 2018 to May 2022, he was Director, M&A Strategy for DuPont de Nemours, Inc. Mr. Powers began his career with The Dow Chemical Company in July 1991, where he held a variety of commercial, marketing, product development and technical roles, including most recently, from January 2011 to March 2018 as Business Development Director for Dow’s Energy and Water business, and from January 2008 to January 2011, as Global Business Director for Dow’s polyurethane rigid foams business based in Milan. Mr. Powers holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and has completed the Executive Program at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
