Eugene R.
President
Business & Management
A. Schulman Corporate
Norway
Biography
Eugene R. Allspach was elected to the Board of Directors of ICO Polymers in October 2008. Since 2003, he has been the President of E. R. Allspach & Associates, LLC, which provides consulting services for new business development activities in the petrochemical industry. He serves as an Advisory Board member of The Plaza Group (a petrochemical marketing company) and the Energy Capital Group (a gasification business development company). Mr. Allspach has approximately 38 years experience in the plastics and chemical industries, where he has held positions in executive management, business development, manufacturing, operations, marketing and process engineering. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Equistar Chemicals, L.P. from 1997 to 2002. From 1988 to 1997, he held several different executive management positions with Millennium Chemicals, Inc., Millennium Petrochemical (formerly Quantum Chemical Company), including Group Vice- President, Manufacturing and Technology, and Vice-President, Specialty Polymers and Business Development. Mr. Allspach also serves as a Board Member of Christus Foundation for HealthCare, and as a Trustee on the University of Cincinnati Foundation Board. He holds a master's degree in chemical engineering from Rice University (M.S., Chemical Engineering) and earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
Research Interest
Business