Tom Bowden Email & Phone Number

Accomplished executive with a record of delivering results in challenging, competitive environments, creating enterprise value through growth and business excellence. Led large-scale multi-site global businesses encompassing sales, operations, EH&S, supply chain, quality, and customer service, approaching opportunities with a bias for action and positive change.Culture change: Led safety culture changes resulting in dramatic reductions in injury rate and severity leading to higher morale, retention, engagement and lower worker's compensation costs.Multi-million dollar results: Achieved dramatic results including a greenfield site turnaround, working capital overhaul, and material cost improvements. Top line growth: Improved customer experience through improved quality, service performance, and response time from quoting to trial delivery.Organizational discipline: Drove positive change through goals, metrics, review cadence and performance accountability throughout the organization. Plans are promises that must be met or exceeded, invoking contingency plans where necessary to achieve results.Acquisition integrations: Skilled in due diligence, synergy identification and integrating acquisitions, and leveraging best practices.I believe great organizations are value-centric. Integrity, communication, inclusion, collaboration and accountability are critical components of great organizations. I thrive in, and strive to create, an environment where the team is fully aware of the landscape, the goals of the organization and how they can contribute to the success of the team. People want to be valued, respected, and have goals and metrics to measure their success. They must accept not only that they are individually accountable for delivering against their objectives, but must also help others on the team succeed. Only through open, candid, professional and collaborative engagement from CEO to line associate can an organization be sustainably successful.

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  Cornell University

  Chemical Engineering