Daniel Abramowicz is an Executive Vice President Technology and Regulatory Affairs, Crown Holdings, with global responsibility for technology development, including new product design, process improvements, materials developments, engineering, and systems that enable process monitoring, database management, and cost reductions across the breadth of Crown’s packaging products (food cans and ends; beverage cans and ends; aerosol containers; metal vacuum closures; specialty packaging; and packaging equipment). In addition, Dr. Abramowicz heads Crown’s Environment, Health and Safety Organization and Crown’s Sustainability Initiative.
Before joining Crown, Dr. Abramowicz was a Technical Director in the GE Global Research Center. In this leadership role, he was responsible for technology development across GE’s Industrial and Consumer Businesses, including Appliances, Lighting, Transportation Systems, Industrial Control Systems, and Electrical Distribution & Control. In an earlier role with GE, Dr. Abramowicz headed GE’s Environmental Laboratory, utilizing chemical, biological and physical methods to develop innovative remediation and pollution prevention systems, as well as methods of green product design.
Dr. Abramowicz received a B.S. in Chemistry and B.A. in Mathematics & Computer Science from St. Francis University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Princeton University. He was an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Past President of the Princeton University Graduate Alumni Board of Governors, and a past Director for the Industrial Research Institute. He is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of the Clemson University Department of Packaging, as Chair of The President’s Advisory Board of Conwell Egan Catholic High School, as a member of the Executive Corporate Committee of The Franklin Institute Science Museum, and on the Board of Governors of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni.
