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President/CEO Information
Bruce D. Hoechner
President and Chief Executive Officer
Rogers Corporation
Mr. Bruce D. Hoechner was elected as President and Chief Executive officer by the Board of Directors and joined Rogers Corporation on October 3, 2011, at which time he also became a member of the Company’s Board of Directors.
Prior to joining Rogers, Mr. Hoechner had many years of broad leadership experience across numerous geographies, businesses and functions in the specialty chemicals industry with particularly strong international business expertise. For five years, Mr. Hoechner was based in Shanghai, China, first with Rohm and Haas Company, for whom he worked for 28 years, and then moving to Dow Chemical upon its acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2009. While in Shanghai, Mr. Hoechner was responsible for a variety of businesses, as President, Asia Pacific Region, Dow Advanced Materials Division with regional revenues of more than $2 billion. Mr. Hoechner has also led a number of specialty chemical global business units, which had wide-ranging operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, as well as Asia.
Mr. Hoechner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University and is a graduate of the Wharton Management Certificate Program at the University of Pennsylvania.