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Michael T. McDonnell
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Eugene R. Allspach
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development
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James Cacioppo
Director
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Michael E. Ducey
Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors
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K'Lynne Johnson
Director
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Richard B. Marchese
Director
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Jeffrey M. Nodland
Director
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Jeffrey A. Strong
Director
Michael T. McDonnell has 25 years of experience in management and executive roles and serves as TPC Group Chief Executive Officer and President and serves as a member of the board of directors. Mr. McDonnell joined TPC Group from Pregis Corporation, a leading global provider of innovative protective, flexible and food service packaging and hospital supply products, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. In this role, he built a standalone corporation from its prior parent company, Pactiv. Prior to this, Mr. McDonnell was Group Vice President, Environmental Technologies of Engelhard Corporation, from 2002 to 2006; and Vice President of a chemicals division for Cytec Industries, Inc., from 1998 to 2002. In his roles at Engelhard and Cytec, Mr. McDonnell grew global businesses of specialty chemicals and materials focused on value-added products. Early in his career he also served in progressively responsible management roles with Henkel Corporation and DuPont. Mr. McDonnell earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from Penn State University and his M.A. in economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Eugene R. Allspach was appointed Senior Vice President – Corporate Development in September 2011. Mr. Allspach has served as a member of the board of directors since February 2011. Prior to joining TPC Group, Mr. Allspach was President of E.R. Allspach & Associates, LLC, a company providing consulting services to new business development activities in the petrochemical industry, since 2003. Mr. Allspach has nearly 38 years of experience in the plastics and chemical industries. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Equistar Chemicals LP, a joint venture of Lyondell Chemical Company, Millennium Petrochemicals, and Occidental Chemical Company, from December 1997 to March 2002. He served as Group Vice President, Manufacturing and Technology for Millennium Petrochemicals (formerly, Quantum Chemical Company) from 1993 to 1997. From 1988 to 1997, Mr. Allspach held several different executive management positions with Millennium, Inc. and Millennium Petrochemical, including Group Vice President, Manufacturing and Manufacturing Services and Vice President, Specialty Polymers and Business Development. Mr. Allspach served at Millennium Petrochemicals or its predecessor from 1973 to 1988, and also served in various production management and process engineering capacities from 1973 to 1982. Mr. Allspach served as President of EVAL Company of America from 1985 to 1988. He is a member of the boards of directors of A. Schulman, Inc. and The Plaza Group and a past board member of the American Chemistry Council, the American Plastics Council and the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association. He is a board member of Christus Foundation for HealthCare and is a Trustee on the University of Cincinnati Foundation Board. Mr. Allspach holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Cincinnati, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University and has completed the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Advanced Management School.
Member of the Environmental Health Safety and Security Committee
James A. Cacioppo is co-portfolio manager of One East Capital Advisors, LP, an investment adviser, a position he has held since March 2006. From July 2002 through January 2006, Mr. Cacioppo served as President and Co-portfolio Manager of Sandell Asset Management Corp. and Castlerigg Master Investments Ltd. From January 2000 through July 2002, Mr. Cacioppo was a principal and the director of investment research at Castlerigg. Mr. Cacioppo earned a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Michael E. Ducey was President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Compass Minerals International, Inc., a producer of salt and specialty fertilizers, from 2002 until his retirement in 2006. He previously worked for Borden Chemical, Inc., a diversified chemical company, from 1972 to 2002, where he held various management, sales, marketing, planning and commercial development positions, including serving as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1999 to 2002 and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Ducey provides consulting services from time to time as an Operating Partner with Apollo Management, a position he has held since 2006. He is also a director of Verso Paper Corp., and a former director of UAP Holding Corp., the parent of United Agri Products, Inc. Mr. Ducey has a B.A. from Otterbein College and an M.B.A. from the University of Dayton. 
Since 2007, K' Lynne Johnson has been CEO and President of Elevance Renewable Sciences, a creator of valued specialty chemicals, including high performance and bio-based ingredients for use in, detergents, fuels, lubricants, personal care products and other specialty chemical markets. Ms. Johnson has more than 20 years in the oil and petrochemicals industry. Prior to joining Elevance, Ms. Johnson served as the Senior Vice President of the Global Derivatives business within Innovene, Inc. one of the world's largest petrochemical and refining companies and a wholly owned subsidiary of BP. She also served in various business and commercial management roles for Amoco and BP from 1991 to 2005. During her career she has held a variety of executive management positions in general business management, e-commerce, supply chain optimization, HR management, strategy development, leadership development, and organizational design and effectiveness. Ms. Johnson holds a B.S. degree in organizational psychology and a master's degree in organizational behavior from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management.
Richard B. Marchese served for fourteen years as the Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Georgia Gulf Corporation, retiring at the end of 2003. Prior to 1989, he served as the Controller of Georgia Gulf Corporation, the Controller of the Resins Division of Georgia Pacific Corporation and Treasurer and Controller of XCEL Corporation. Mr. Marchese is a member of the board of directors of Blue Linx Holdings, Inc. and Nalco Holding Company and is a member of the board of directors of Quality Distribution, Inc., where he serves on the Executive Committee. Mr. Marchese holds a B.S. in Accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Jeffrey M. Nodland is the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of KIK Custom Products, a position he has held since February 2008. Prior to this role, Mr. Nodland was an independent consultant from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Nodland held several executive positions with Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc., including President of the Coatings and Inks Division from 2005 to 2006, and President and COO of Resolution Specialty Materials from 2004 to 2005. He also served as President and COO of Resolution Performance Products from 2001 to 2004, President and CEO of McWhorter Technologies from 1994 to 2001 and spent seventeen years in senior executive roles with The Valspar Corporation. Mr. Nodland is also a director of California Products Corporation. He has a B.A. in Business Administration from Augsburg College and an M.B.A. from the College of St. Thomas. 
Jeffrey A. Strong has been a senior investment professional at QVT Financial LP since 2005, focusing primarily on global special situations. From 2001 until 2005 he was an analyst at Shenkman Capital Management, focusing on high yield bond investments across the chemical, telecom and healthcare industries. Mr. Strong has an M.B.A. from the College of William & Mary, a B.S. from the University of Missouri and is a CFA® charterholder member.