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Midland, Mich. – July 16, 2007 – Dow Corning Corp. has made several key
executive appointments within its Advanced Technologies and Ventures Business
(ATVB) to position the company for growth opportunities in electronics markets
throughout Asia. Company veteran Phil Dembowski has been appointed Greater
China business director for ATVB, and will be based in China. Dembowski assumes
his new duties from Jeroen Bloemhard, who remains global industry executive
director of Dow Corning’s electronics business and will move from China to
Japan to focus on expanding Dow Corning’s position in the Japan electronics
market. Meanwhile, Ken Seibert replaces Dembowski as global manager of the
Device Fabrication materials group within ATVB’s Electronics and Advanced
Technologies (E&AT).
Dembowski has been with Dow Corning for 20 years in a variety of engineering
and management positions. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering
from Michigan Technological University in 1987, and a master’s in business
administration from the University of Michigan in 1991. He will transition into
his new role over the next several weeks and will relocate from Michigan to
China, along with his family, later this year.
“I’m looking forward to continuing the momentum built up by Jeroen Bloemhard
and strengthening our already successful operations in China, the world’s
fastest-growing microelectronics market,” said Dembowski. “Dow Corning is
committed to developing a world-class silicone and silicon materials industry
in Greater China, while further advancing the growth of the region’s
electronics industry.”
Seibert, who has been market manager of Dow Corning’s chemical vapor
deposition (CVD) business since 2003, has won company-wide marketing and
technical awards for developing E&AT’s CVD business model, and for
developing novel CVD precursors. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical
engineering from Michigan Technological University in 1987 and worked for
Harris Semiconductor and Motorola Inc. before joining Dow Corning in 1999.
Bloemhard, E&AT’s global industry executive director, has held a variety
of marketing and sales positions around the globe since joining Dow Corning in
1991. He will relocate to Tokyo later this year, where he will be closer to
critical electronics industry customers, partners and innovators.
“Putting our company’s resources and senior management closer to our key
Asian customers is a strategic focus for Dow Corning,” Bloemhard said. “These
personnel moves support this important corporate objective.”
Dow Corning’s Advanced Technologies and Ventures Business serves the needs
of the electronics, optoelectronics and semiconductor industries with
specialized, high-purity silicone- and silicon-containing products and
solutions.
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