2005 Phillips Petroleum/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership

featuring

Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.
Senior VP & Chief Science and Technology Officer
DuPont

“Core Values and DuPont’s
Third Century”
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 4:00 p.m.

Reception immediately following

Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.

Thomas M. Connelly, Jr., senior vice president and chief science and technology officer, joined DuPont in 1977, as a research engineer at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware.

From 1980 to 1985, Dr. Connelly served in research and plant technical leadership roles, in Deepwater, New Jersey; Louisville, Kentucky; and Parkersburg, West Virginia. In 1985, Dr. Connelly became global product manager for the Permasep® business, based in Delaware.

From 1987 until 1994, Dr. Connelly worked in Europe, first as manager for Polymer Products in the United Kingdom, and then as director for the European Technical Center in Geneva, Switzerland.

While still in Geneva in early 1992, Dr. Connelly assumed leadership of the Delrin® engineering resins business, serving for the next five years as business director. Early in 1994, he moved to Hong Kong where he continued his Delrin® role, and added responsibility for the Engineering Polymer business throughout Asia, except Japan.

In mid-1997, Dr. Connelly assumed the role of business director for Kevlar® aramid fiber, based in Richmond, Virginia. In January 1999, he was named vice president and general manager – DuPont Fluoroproducts. He was named to his current position on September 1, 2000.

Dr. Connelly was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated with highest honors from Princeton University with degrees in chemical engineering and economics. As a Winston Churchill Scholar, he received his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Connelly and his wife and their three children live in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Phillips Petroleum/C.J. “Pete” Silas
Program in Ethics and Leadership

In recognition of the outstanding career achievements of Georgia Tech Chemical Engineering graduate C.J. “Pete” Silas, The Phillips Petroleum Foundation awarded a grant to the School of Chemical Engineering to develop the Phillips Petroleum/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership. Ethics, leadership and quality, founded on the basics of strong communication skills and professionalism, are regarded as essential components of an engineering education. This program spotlights the importance of ethics and leadership by focusing on technical and business decisions that have ethical ramifications. These topics and related areas are integrated into the required chemical engineering courses and are addressed in an annual public symposium with prominent industrialists and ethicists leading discussions on current issues of technology and ethics.

Previous Silas Program Lecturers

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
President and CEO of Shell Oil Products U.S.,
and President Shell Oil Company, and Country Chair for Shell U.S.

Charles “Garry” Betty
President and Chief Executive Officer,
EarthLink, Inc.

William G. Paul
Attorney with Crowe & Dunlevy and
President Emeritus, American Bar Association

Raymond V. Gilmartin
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Merck & Company, Inc.

Robert W. Galvin
Chairman of the Executive Committee of Motorola, Inc.

Shaun F. O’Malley
Chairman Emeritus and Chairman of the Ethics Resource
Center of Pricewaterhouse, LLP

C.J. “Pete” Silas
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Phillips Petroleum Company