Dr. William F. Banholzer

Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Dow Chemical Company

B.S., Marquette University
M.S., PhD, University of Illinois

William F. Banholzer is corporate vice president and chief technology officer of the Dow Chemical Company. He is a member of the Office of the Chief Executive and leads Dow's research and development activities across the globe. Before joining Dow, Banholzer had a 22-year career with General Electric, starting as a staff chemical engineer in the company's corporate research and development laboratory and ending as vice president of global technology at GE Advanced Materials, responsible for worldwide technology and engineering.

In 2002 Banholzer was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He serves on the NAE's Chemical Engineering Peer Committee and its Awards Committee and is one of 12 members of its Governing Council. He sits on the advisory boards for chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley; is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; and serves on the AIChE Awards Committee.

Banholzer earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Marquette University and master's and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, holds 14 patents, and has received more than 1,000 published citations for his work in the fields of engineering and chemistry.