Duane Dickson is a Vice Chairman and principal in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Consumer & Industrial Products group, as well as the Global and US Leader, Chemicals & Specialty Materials sector and the Global Chemicals & Specialty Materials Consulting leader. He is the former World Economic Forum (Forum) Project Advisor and Deloitte Global Chemical Community Lead, Chemistry and Advanced Materials. Duane focuses on providing services in corporate and growth strategies; acquisitions, divestitures, and carve-outs; and general management, working primarily with chemicals, materials, industrial products, consumer packaged goods, medical devices, and safety equipment industries.

Duane has more than 35 years of business and consulting experience in senior positions in major industrial and healthcare products companies. Duane also has extensive experience serving as a senior executive focusing on operations. He has led major transformational programs in four major chemical companies, all yielding in excess of US$200 million in profitability and more than US$1 billion of shareholder value. As a former VP/General Manager of a US$1 billion division of an industrial chemical company, he led the complete restructuring of the division, drove significant profitability improvement, and co-developed synergy capture plan and asset divestiture plans in support of a large merger. Also, as a former VP of Corporate Ventures (M&A), Duane developed significant experience in transaction support, negotiation, JV (Joint Venture) management, divestitures, and corporate development. He has also led Corporate Strategy and Global Marketing for a global manufacturer of medical products.