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Meet the ExecutivesHutch RanckManaging Director – DuPont Australia & New Zealand
Group Managing Director ASEAN



Hutch Ranck
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Hutch Ranck, managing director of DuPont Australia and New Zealand and group managing director, DuPont ASEAN, is an Australian citizen, although born and educated in the United States. He joined DuPont in 1979.

He held management positions in Financial Planning and several key businesses before transferring to head office in Wilmington, Del., in 1985 to become international product manager for White Pigments & Mineral Products (WPMP). Two years later, he became director WPMP for Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.

He returned to Australia in 1993 to take up director roles with Polymers, Fluoro Products, Information Systems, Crop Protection Chemicals, Engineering Polymers and Packaging and Industrial Polymers, before being appointed Managing Director.

His external appointments include chair of the Business Council of Australia Education, Skills and Innovation Task Force, a member of the BCA Board as well as the Business Council of Australia representative to the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, PMSEIC.

Mr Ranck is a director of Futuris Corporation and the Australian Bush Heritage Foundation.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, majoring in Finance, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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