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Thomas to lead Bayer MaterialScience.


Patrick W. Thomas was named chairman of the board of management of Bayer MaterialScience Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) is an independent subgroup within Bayer AG. It was created as part of the restructuring of Bayer AG from the former business group Bayer Polymers, with certain of its activities being spun off to Lanxess AG. .

Thomas began his career with Imperial Chemical Industries in 1979. Until 1989, he held a number of positions for ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays.  Pharmaceuticals and Agrochemicals in the U.K. until he transferred to ICI Polyurethanes polyurethanes (pŏl'ēyr`əthānz), group of plastics that may be either thermosetting or thermoplastic. Polyurethane can be made into both flexible and rigid foams.  in Belgium. In 1993, Thomas was named regional director for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and became the company's global chief executive officer four years later.

In 1999, Thomas joined Huntsman as president of the Polyurethanes, Performance and Advanced Materials Advanced Materials is a leading peer-reviewed materials science journal published every two weeks. Advanced Materials includes Communications, Reviews, and Feature Articles from the cutting edge of materials science, including topics in chemistry, physics,  Divisions. He was named corporate executive vice president of Huntsman Matlin Patterson in 2003. Since 2005, he has been working as a management consultant for private-equity companies in the industry sector.

Thomas received his engineering degree from Oxford University.
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