Mr. Williams has served as a member of othe Board of Directors and as a member of our Audit Committee and Human Capital Management and Compensation Committee since March 2021. Most recently, Mr. Williams served as the Chief Executive Officer of Nexeo Plastics Holdings, Inc., a global plastics distributor, from April 2019 until June of 2020 and from September 2012 to March of 2019 as Executive Vice President of Nexeo Solutions, Inc. Mr. Williams has been retired since June 2020. Prior to joining Nexeo Solutions, from 2007 to 2012 Mr. Williams served as President of Momentive Global Sealants, a global specialty sealants business, and President of Momentive Performance Materials, a silicone specialty materials business. Earlier in his career, Mr. Williams spent 22 years serving in industrial and material business leadership roles at General Electric Company and led businesses globally in the Americas, Europe, and Asia across a broad sector of markets. Since December 2020, Mr. Williams has served as the chairman of the board of managers and as a member of the audit and compensation committees of Covia Holdings LLC, a provider of minerals-based solutions serving the industrial and energy markets.
Mr. Williams earned his M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University.