DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman to Speak at UNC Kenan-Flagler Feb. 23
Contact: Heather Havenstein, UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School communications, 919-962-8951, heather_havenstein@unc.edu
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Feb. 8 /Standard Newswire/ -- Ellen Kullman, chair of the board and chief executive officer of DuPont, will give a free public lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School on Feb. 23.
The 5:30 p.m. talk at Kenan-Flagler's Koury Auditorium is part of the Dean's Speaker Series.
To reserve a seat at the lecture, call 919-843-7787 or e-mail kfbsrsvp@unc.edu. Free parking will be available only in the business school parking deck.
Kullman is the 19th executive to lead the company in more than 207 years of DuPont history. In 2009, Fortune ranked her seventh of its "Most Powerful Women in Business." Forbes also ranked her seventh of "The World's Most Powerful Women."
A native of Wilmington, Del., she began her career at DuPont in 1988 as a marketing manager and subsequently served as global business director, vice president and president. Kullman holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University and a master's degree in management from Northwestern University.
Previous Dean's Speaker Series speakers have included Steve Howe, Americas managing partner, Ernst & Young; John Replogle, president and CEO, Burt's Bees; Timothy P. Flynn, chairman, KPMG International; and William C. Weldon, chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson.