Segetis Expands Leadership Team
Segetis, Inc. has announced the appointment of Snehal Desai as business vice president, Cora Leibig, Ph.D. as director of product and application development, and Steve Donen as director of process engineering and development.
As business vice president responsible for all aspects of commercializing the technology, Snehal Desai has more than 21 years of progressive leadership experience in the plastics, chemicals and renewable materials industries. Prior to joining Segetis, he was vice president and chief marketing officer of NatureWorks LLC. In this role, Desai led strategic development and global execution of the marketing, sales and development teams for the company during an explosive growth period from 2003 to2008. Prior to working for NatureWorks LLC, Desai held various positions in sales, marketing, business development and TS&D across specialty chemicals and plastics business units in The Dow Chemical Company.
Cora Leibig leads the development of high-performance products from Segetis technology. She brings to Segetis more than a decade of product development experience at Dow Chemical. Leibig has developed an extensive track record for blending business acumen and market input with a technical team firmly grounded in scientific principles to rapidly invent and develop products with strong market acceptance worldwide. Leibig studied polymer physics and dynamics as a Hertz Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Leibig also has a master’s degree in chemical engineering practice and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As director of process engineering and development, Steve Donen brings more than 30 years of experience in the chemical processing industry, including executive leadership positions in manufacturing, engineering and technology development. Most recently, as director of manufacturing technology and Engineering for NatureWorks LLC he led the cross-functional team in developing, designing, constructing and starting up the first ever world-scale polymer plant that makes plastic from corn. Before NatureWorks LLC, Donen was the global technology manager for Dow Chemical’s polystyrene business in Midland, Michigan.
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