Chris Jones

Chris Jones has extensive work experience in various roles related to strategic marketing, business development, and finance.

Their current position is Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Albemarle Corporation, where they lead the marketing team and oversees global strategic marketing activities and projects for the Specialties GBU. This includes responsibilities such as developing a new web site taxonomy, creating long-term strategic roadmaps, launching new product platforms, and conducting segmentation and prioritization.

Prior to their current role, Chris worked at Dow for over two decades in various positions. Chris served as the Global Strategic Marketing Director for MobilityScience(TM), where they achieved 20% annual growth and led a global marketing team for the mobility sector. Chris also held the roles of Senior Marketing Director, Global Strategy and Growth Director, Commercial Director for Dow Alternative Energy, Venture Capital Investment Manager, and Finance Manager during their tenure at Dow.

In these positions, Chris was responsible for driving long-term growth, assessing macro growth trends, making strategic recommendations, managing a team of marketing leaders, optimizing new product portfolios, establishing account relationships, negotiating agreements, managing venture capital investments, and overseeing finance operations.

Before joining Dow, Chris held research and engineering roles at other organizations.

Overall, Chris Jones has a diverse and accomplished work history in strategic marketing, business development, and finance, with a focus on driving growth and value creation for the organizations they have worked for.

Chris Jones received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University from 1996 to 1999. Prior to that, from 1992 to 1996, they obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Chemical Engineering from the same institution. Additionally, Chris has a certification in Six Sigma, although specific details about the institution, month, and year of obtaining the certification are not provided.