
After more than two decades inside chemicals and materials, the engineer-turned-executive has taken on a deceptively hard brief: make advanced silicones legible, useful and commercially sharp.
The materials inside diapers, surgical gowns, coffee capsules and weatherproof walls rarely get a headline. Magnera, born from a 2024 industrial merger and backed by 160 years of inherited know-how, makes a $3.2 billion business out of that invisibility.