Team Menu
EDWARD H. MUÑOZ, Principal
Edward H. Munoz
has a successful 30-year track record in the global chemical and
plastics industry, and in emerging technologies.
International BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:
- Senior and CEO positions with
Celanese and the Hoechst Corporate Group, including:
- CEO of Ticona (1999-2002)
- Head of the Mexican Celanese
subsidiary, Celanese Mexicana, S.A. (1993-1995). At that
time, Celanese
Mexicana was the largest privately-owned chemical processing
company in Mexico and one of the largest in Latin America, with
sales of over one billion dollars.
-
President of the Worldwide Pigments Strategic Business Unit for
Hoechst, AG, in Frankfurt, Germany (1996-1998)
- Chair
of a Hoechst corporate group that developed strategic options
for the divestment of Trevira, and a Trevira Board Member.
- President of Worldwide Technical Fibers,
Hoechst (1998-1999).
- Head
of the negotiating team that ultimately
sold Hoechst’s Polyester business to Kosa, the Koch- Saba joint
venture.
- Chief Executive Officer of Ticona, and a
Board Member of Celanese, AG, in January, 1999, where he served
until co-founding Muñoz Investment Banking Group in 2002.
- In
1980, Mr. Munoz became managing director of Ticona, a joint
venture company between Hoechst and Celanese, a position he held
until 1984. He was
instrumental in coordinating technical and production know-how
among the Hoechst, Celanese and Japanese (Polyplastics) partners.
In
1984, Mr. Munoz joined Baxter Travenol in Chicago, where he served as operations director for
medical devices, and later as vice president of engineering and
packaging for the pharmaceutical division until 1988.
Mr.
Muñoz then joined the Hoechst Celanese organization in 1988
as director of manufacturing for Engineering Resins.
In 1990, he was promoted to vice president and general
manager of the Plastics Division of Hoechst Celanese, and in the following year,
became president of the Advanced Materials
Group.
Top
PROFESSIONAL and EDUCATIONAL credentials:
-
Member of the Board of Trustees for the University of
Texas-Pan American.
- Member
of the Council of Natural Sciences at the
University of Texas at Austin
- Charter member
of the Executive Committee of the Bilateral (U.S.-Mexico) Business
Council for Sustainable Development of the Gulf of Mexico.
- Chairman
of the International Advisory Council of Texas
A&M University at Corpus Christi
- B.S., Polymer Chemistry;
University of Texas (1967)
- MBA;
Texas A&M
University (1979).
- Fluent in English, Spanish and German.
Email Mr. Muñoz
|
