Howard brings more than 30 years of senior-level leadership, operational, and financial experience in the chemical, packaging, and specialty materials sectors. Howard is the former President and Chief Financial Officer of Dow, where he served as a member of Dow’s senior executive committee that sets the strategic direction, establishes corporate policy, and manages governance and enterprise-level decisions for the business. From September 2017 until April 2019, Howard also served as Chief Financial Officer of DowDuPont, an $86 billion holding company comprised of The Dow Chemical Company and DuPont, created with the intent to subsequently form three independent, publicly traded companies in materials science, agriculture, and specialty products sectors. Howard is the former chairman of the Dow Company Foundation and holds board positions with Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the Michigan Baseball Foundation, and The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation. Howard is the immediate past chair of the board of the Business Leaders for the Michigan business roundtable, the Michigan Climate Executive Advisory Group, and the Michigan Sustainability Leadership Council. Howard has an M.B.A. from the University of California in Los Angeles and a B.B.A. in marketing from the University of Texas in Austin.