DuPont names McQuade, Cox to key automotive-coatings posts

DuPont names McQuade, Cox to key automotive-coatings posts

DuPont names McQuade, Cox to key automotive-coatings posts

DuPont Automotive has announced that Marty McQuade, Vice President – DuPont Herberts Automotive Systems, will become global vice president and general manager in charge of worldwide business operations for automotive OEM coatings, effective from 1 April. He will be based in Troy, MI. McQuade succeeds John R. Lewis, who will lead growth initiatives in Asia for DuPont Performance Coatings. Lewis will be based at DuPont’s corporate headquarters in Wilmington, DE.

Stephen L. Cox, Business Director for DuPont Powder Coatings, has been named vice president – America, DuPont Herberts Automotive Systems. He assumes responsibility for DuPont’s automotive OEM coatings business in North and South America.

McQuade has more than 26 years of experience in the automotive-coatings industry, and has held manufacturing, research and financial positions. He was managing director for DuPont Automotive Coatings – Europe in Bonn, Germany, from 1995 to 1999 before assuming the Americas leadership position in April 1999.

Cox has 23 years of experience in the coatings industry and joined DuPont in 1999, when the company acquired Herberts, the former coatings unit of Hoechst AG. He has held various business and business-development leadership positions in Europe and the United States, and led the Herberts Standox brand in the Americas for automotive refinishes from 1989 to 1996. Cox was named to head DuPont Powder Coatings in 2000.