Ingevity Corporation Announces Katherine Pryor Burgeson Retire as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Ingevity
June 30, 2020 at 06:25 pm IST
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Ingevity Corp. reported that Katherine Pryor Burgeson has elected to retire as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Ingevity. Burgeson opted to participate in the company's previously announced early retirement program. Burgeson will remain with the company through a transition period as mutually determined. Ryan C. Fisher, Ingevity's deputy general counsel, chief legal officer for Ingevity's Performance Chemicals segment, and assistant secretary, is expected to be named interim general counsel and secretary upon Burgeson's departure. Burgeson joined Ingevity in 2015 and helped facilitate the spin off from WestRock. From 2000 to 2015, Burgeson served as deputy general counsel at MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV), joining the law department of WestRock Company following the merger of MWV and RockTenn Company in July 2015. Before joining MWV, she was a partner in the corporate group of Cummings & Lockwood, LLC, for 10 years, representing public companies and private equity clients on transactional and securities matters. Prior to that, she was a corporate associate at Shearman & Sterling, LLC, responsible for securities and mergers and acquisitions matters.
Ingevity Corporation is engaged in developing, marketing, and bringing to market solutions that are renewably sourced. The Company operates through three segments: Performance Materials, Performance Chemicals, and Advanced Polymer Technologies. Performance Materials segment engineers, manufactures, and sells hardwood-based, chemically activated carbon products, which are produced through a technical and specialized process primarily for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars, trucks, motorcycles, and boats. Performance Chemicals segment is comprised of two product lines: road technologies and industrial specialties. Its products are utilized in pavement construction, preservation, reconstruction and recycling, agrochemical dispersants, paper chemicals and other diverse industrial uses. Advanced Polymer Technologies segment produces caprolactone and caprolactone-based specialty polymers for use in coatings, resins, elastomers, adhesives, bioplastics, and medical devices.
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