Rich James

Rich James is the Global Marketing Director for Dow’s MobilityScience Sustainability platform and Specialty Plastics business unit. Sustainability and Automotive are the two constant threads through Rich’s career. Rich joined Dow after leading the design and construction of ADM’s first domestic biodiesel plant. Over the next two decades with Dow, Rich has had leadership roles in airbag and elastomer production; solar panel efficiency improvements, and now is pioneering sustainable automotive seating and vehicle light-weighting through effective use of plastic. In Rich’s current role he brings his experience and expertise across Dow’s chemistry sets to drive the needed change for global automotive brands achieve their circular and carbon reduction goals.