Mike Modak, Board of Directors
Mike Modak brings more than 30 years experience as a senior executive in the chemicals and materials world. He has held global P&L roles as well as strategy/growth roles with a number of premier public companies as well as private equity backed firms.
Most recently he was the executive responsible for the global businesses and R&D at Blackstone backed Polymer Group. Prior to that he was the chief commercial officer of Apollo backed Momentive Performance Materials.
Prior to Momentive, Modak was vice president strategic marketing and business development at Honeywell’s Specialty Materials business where he held responsibility for strategy development, mergers and acquisitions, strategic marketing, commercial excellence and the company’s portfolio of upstream opportunities.
At National Starch, an ICI company, he was the leader of the Health Care and Personal Care businesses then took responsibility for the company’s Strategic Development and Innovation activities.
Prior to National, Modak spent 20 years at HB Fuller Company, a leading adhesive and specialty chemical manufacturer. After early career roles in sales, marketing and strategic planning, he alternated between general management roles in various businesses and staff roles in the corporate development and mergers & acquisitions arena completing numerous transactions in all areas of the world. He last served as the executive in charge of the Industrial Products Group as well as a board member of Eftec, the company’s joint venture in the automotive business.
Modak has a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College.
Modak is a member of the Melior Innovations Board of Directors.
