Nicholas C. FanandakisGroup Vice President - DuPont Applied BioSciences

Nicholas C. Fanandakis is group vice president - DuPont Applied BioSciences. He joined DuPont in 1979 as an accounting and business analyst in the Petrochemicals Department in Wilm., Del.

Over the next several years, Mr. Fanandakis served in a variety of plant, marketing, and product management positions within Petrochemicals, Chemicals and Pigments, and Specialty Chemicals. He also spent about six years in the Fluorochemicals business. In 1993, he was appointed regional manager in Specialty Chemicals. In 1995, he was appointed business manager - Safety and Environmental Management Services. In January 1997, he was appointed to the position of global business and operations manager - Peroxygens.

In October 1999, Mr. Fanandakis was appointed to the position of business director - Industrials, with responsibility for the Industrial Solutions market space, which includes Acrylonitrile, Anchorage Systems, Aniline, Aramid Intermediates, Cyanides, Dimethyl Sulfate, Methylamines, Reactive Metals, Refinery, and Secure Environmental Treatment, and DuPont™ Vazo® Free Radical Initiators. He was named vice president and general manager - DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise. He was named vice president - DuPont Planning to his current position in February 2007. He was named to his current position in January 2008.

Mr. Fanandakis was born in Boston, Mass. He obtained BA Accounting and MBA Business Administration degrees from Northeastern University (1979) and Grand Valley State College (1984), respectively.

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