Katharine Plourde

Pall Corp. designs, manufactures, and markets filtration and separation equipment. Its products are used to remove solid, liquid, and gaseous contaminants from a variety of liquids and gases. The firm has Life Sciences and Industrial segments. The Life Sciences segment focuses on developing, manufacturing, and selling products to customers in the medical, biopharmaceuticals, and food and beverage markets. The Industrial segment focuses on developing, manufacturing and selling products to customers in the process technologies, aerospace, and microelectronics markets. The company was founded by David B. Pall on July 31, 1946 and is headquartered in Port Washington, NY.

OM Group, Inc. is a technology-based industrial growth company. It engages in developing, producing and marketing chemicals, advanced materials and electrochemical energy storage products worldwide. The company operates through the following segments: Magnetic Technologies, Advanced Materials, Specialty Chemicals and Battery Technologies. The Magnetic Technologies segment is engaged in the development, manufacturing and distribution of industrial-use magnetic products and systems for electronic equipment markets, including the renewable energy, automotive systems, construction & mining and industrial sectors. The Advanced Materials segment manufactured inorganic products using unrefined cobalt and other metals and served the mobile energy storage, renewable energy, automotive systems, construction and mining and industrial end markets. The Specialty Chemicals segment develops, produces and supplies chemicals for electronic applications, industrial applications including coatings, composites and tire; and photomasks used by customers to produce semiconductors and related products. The Battery Technologies segment provides advanced batteries, battery management systems, battery-related research and energetic devices for defense, space and medical markets. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.