John Buckley has been named global general manager of performance materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, and has been elected president and CEO of ANGUS Chemical Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.
Buckley began his career at Rohm and Haas in 1983 as a process and design engineer. There, he was promoted to operations and commercial roles in other divisions, including managing operations in Latin America and leading sales and marketing positions in both Brazil and at the company headquarters in Philadelphia. After a short period as global business manager for Graver Technologies, Buckley rejoined Rohm and Haas in1998 to take positions in business management and global marketing.
Buckley joined the Dow Chemical Company through the acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2009. Most recently, he served as president of AgroFresh Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the company.
