Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer. DuPont Electronic & Communications Technologies

Thomas M. Connelly is executive vice president, chief innovation officer and a member of the company’s Office of the Chief Executive. He also has responsibility for the DuPont Electronic & Communication Technologies platform. He joined DuPont in 1977, as research engineer at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Del.

From 1980 to 1985, Dr. Connelly served in research and plant technical leadership roles, in Deepwater, N.J., Louisville, Ky., and Parkersburg, W. Va. In 1985, Dr. Connelly became global product manager for the Permasep® business, based in Delaware.

From 1987 until 1994, Dr. Connelly worked in Europe, first as manager for Polymer Products in the United Kingdom, and as director for the European Technical Center in Geneva, Switzerland.

While still in Geneva in early 1992, Dr. Connelly assumed leadership of the Delrin® engineering resins business, serving for the next five years as business director. Early in 1994, he moved to Hong Kong where he continued his Delrin® role, and added responsibility for the Engineering Polymer business throughout Asia, except Japan.

In mid-1997, Dr. Connelly assumed the role of business director for Kevlar® aramid fiber, based in Richmond, Va. In January 1999 he was named vice president and general manager – DuPont Fluoroproducts. He was named senior vice president and Chief Science & Technology Officer in September 2001. He was appointed to his current position in June 2006, and added responsibility for DuPont Electronic & Communication Technologies in October 2006.

Dr. Connelly was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated with highest honors from Princeton University with degrees in chemical engineering and economics. As a Winston Churchill Scholar, he received his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge.