Hughes brings more than twenty years of business management and product development experience to his new position. He most recently was the president and general manager of SABIC Innovative Plastics, Specialty Film and Sheet Business, Mount Vernon, Ind. SABIC Innovative Plastics is a $6 billion division of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and was formerly GE Plastics, which SABIC acquired in 2007.
Hughes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn., and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.