FMC Corporation Elects Eduardo E. Cordeiro and William H. Powell to Board of Directors
FMC Corporation announced that Eduardo E. Cordeiro and William H. Powell have been elected to the company's board of directors, effective June 1, 2011.
Mr. Cordeiro, age 44, is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Cabot Corporation. He joined Cabot in 1998 and has held several corporate, business and executive management positions including general manager of Cabot's Fumed Metal Oxides and Tantalum Businesses and vice president of Corporate Strategy until being named to his current position in 2009. Prior to joining Cabot, Mr. Cordeiro was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.
Mr. Powell, age 65, is retired chairman and chief executive officer of the National Starch and Chemical Company. He joined National Starch in 1976 and held numerous management and executive positions in the company before his retirement in 2006. When National Starch was a subsidiary of ICI PLC, Mr. Powell was an executive vice president and on the board of directors for ICI. Prior to joining National Starch, he was with Novamont Corporation and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., and served as an officer in the United States Air Force.
With this election of Mr. Cordeiro and Mr. Powell, the FMC board of directors will have 10 independent directors with Pierre Brondeau, FMC president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board, as the sole inside director.
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