CAROL A. WILLIAMS, 67, retired in 2015 as special advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company (a diversified chemical manufacturing company), a position she held since January 2015. Prior to this, she served as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing and Engineering from September 2011 to December 2014, adding responsibility for Supply Chain and Environmental, Health & Safety Operations in 2012; President of Chemicals & Energy from August 2010 to August 2011; and Senior Vice President of Basic Chemicals from January 2009 to July 2010, all at Dow. During Ms. Williams’ 34-year history at Dow, she assumed increasingly more significant management positions in research and development before becoming operations leader and then Vice President for the global chlor-alkali assets business.
Ms. Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She serves on the Board of Directors, and the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee and Compensation and Talent Management Committee of the Board of O-I Glass, Inc. (a leading producer of high quality glass packaging), and was the independent Board Chair from 2015 to 2021. Ms. Williams is a member of the Engineering Advisory Board and Energy Futures Institute Presidential Consultation Committee for Carnegie Mellon University. From 2012 through June 2015, she was on the Board of Directors of Zep, Inc. (a supplier of industrial cleaning materials).
Olin director since October 2015; Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Ms. Williams brings extensive management expertise in manufacturing, purchasing and supply chain operations, substantial experience in research and development, and comprehensive knowledge of the chlor-alkali and general chemicals industry to Olin’s Board of Directors.