Rohm and Haas CEO Raj L.Gupta Named Drexel Business Leader of the Year
Raj L. Gupta, Drexel trustee and chairman, president and CEO of Rohm and Haas Company, received Drexel University’s 53rd Business Leader of the Year Award at a luncheon in his honor at the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia on November 30.
Based in Philadelphia, Rohm and Haas is a global leader in the creation and development of innovative technologies and solutions for the specialty materials industry. The company’s technologies are found in a wide range of markets including: building and construction, electronics, industrial process, packaging, transportation, household and personal care, water, food and retail and paper. Its technologies and solutions help to improve life every day, around the world. Rohm and Haas’ annual sales were about $8 billion in 2005.
Gupta joined Rohm and Haas in 1971 and has served as financial analyst, financial manager of the subsidiary in the United Kingdom, business director for plastics in Europe, vice president, director of the Pacific Region and a member of the company’s Chairman’s Committee. He was named Rohm and Haas chairman and CEO in 1999 and became president in 2005.
Gupta earned an MBA in finance from Drexel’s LeBow College of Business in 1972. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in operations research from Cornell University. Gupta is a member of the boards of Tyco, Vanguard Group, American Chemistry Council and Chemical Heritage Foundation.
The Business Leader of the Year luncheon benefits students in Drexel’s LeBow College of Business. The 2005 event, honoring C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni, chairman of the international engineering firm Pennoni Associates Inc., raised more than $400,000 in scholarships and capital support in Pennoni’s name.
Award Recipients 1954-2006 | |
| 1954 Earl D. Johnson 1955 Edward R. Murrow 1956 Henry R. Luce 1957 General Douglas MacArthur 1958 Edward T. McCormick Jr. 1959 George W. Romney 1960 Dr. Thomas J. Watson 1961 Walter Reuther 1962 The Honorable Luther Hodges 1963 The Honorable Estes Kefauver 1964 Carl E. Reistle 1965 Charles H. Percy 1966 Harrison F. Dunning 1967 Sir Paul Chambers 1968 Dr. David Sarnoff 1969 John R. Bunting Jr. 1970 Meshulam Riklis 1971 John P. Bracken 1972 J. Willard Marriott Jr. 1973 Harold A. Shaub 1974 William T. Beebe 1975 John T. Connor 1976 Helen Honig Meyer 1977 Edward R. Kane 1978 William P. Tavoulareas 1979 James L. Ketelsen | 1980 J. Donald Rauth |
For more information about the luncheon: 215-895-2999 or marc.r.britton@drexel.edu.
