William S Stavropoulos

William S. Stavropoulos, 74, former Chairman and CEO of the Dow Chemical Company, is president and founder of minor league baseball team the Great Lakes Loons. In 2005, he was inducted into the Midland County Sports Hall of Fame as a Professional Baseball Visionary for work, which includes founding the Michigan Baseball Foundation. Stavropoulos was a director at Tyco International Limited from 2007 to 2012. A major diversified, multinational company, Tyco is a leading provider of security products and services, fire protection and detection products and services, valves Stavropoulos was a director at Tyco International Limited from 2007 to 2012. A major diversified, multinational company, Tyco is a leading provider of security products and services, fire protection and detection products and services, valves and controls, and other industrial products. In May 2007, just two months after Stavropoulos became a board member, Tyco agreed to pay almost $3 billion to defrauded investors, the largest such payment ever made by a single company. He retired at the end of 2012. Prior to joining Tyco, Stavropoulos was chairman, president, & CEO of The Dow Chemical Company, where his career spanned 39 years. His career with Dow began in Indianapolis with pharmaceutical research in 1967. While he was with Dow, he held various positions in research, marketing and general management. He also served in a variety of research and business positions in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Dr. Stavropoulos was named president of Dow USA in 1990, and was elected vice president of Dow Chemical Company. He was then elected a senior vice president of Dow in May 1991, and became chief operating officer in 1993. He served as CEO in 1995-2000 and again in 2002-04, and was a member of Dow’s board of directors from July 1990 to March 2006 (he was succeeded by Andrew Liveris, a Greek Australian, who is also on this list). Stavropoulos holds a bachelor of science degree in pharmaceutical chemistry from Fordham University and a doctorate in medicinal chemistry from the University of Washington. He is a director of Teradata Corporation, and on the advisory boards for Metalmark Capital LLC and Maersk Inc. He is a trustee of the Fidelity Equity and High Income Funds’ Board and is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC, a private investment firm. Stavropoulos is non-executive chairman of Univar, the largest chemical distributor in the U.S. Stavropoulos is also a past chairman of the American Chemistry Council, Society of Chemical Industry, and American Plastics Council. He served on the Board of Trustees at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.