John Branan

As Corporate Vice President of HSE and Engineering, John plays a key role in fostering Orbia’s safety culture and ensuring that global employees, partners and stakeholders thrive responsibly in healthy environments. John also steers Orbia’s sustainability and circularity visions and functions.

With over 35 years of experience in the specialty materials and chemicals industries, John has expertise in safety best practices, environmental compliance, process optimization and strategic project execution and a track record in steering process, program and commercial improvements that drive efficiencies as well as growth.

Since joining Orbia in 2018, John has led the Health, Safety & Environment and Engineering teams for Koura, Alphagary and recently Vestolit to new levels of operational excellence. Prior to joining Orbia, John held executive leadership roles spanning operations, business development and capital project engineering and process optimization at Cabot Corporation, where he additionally developed and patented several carbon-black products and technologies.

John holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.