CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEO, AVN

Steven B. Hedrick

Steve Hedrick is Chairman, President & CEO of AVN Corporation in South Charleston, W.Va. AVN is an innovation partner in research, technical engineering, technology commercialization, and manufacturing for the chemical, energy, environmental, and advanced software sectors. AVN delivers solutions to hard problems from concept to commercialization.

Mr. Hedrick has more than three decades of broad-based leadership experience, with more than 25 years of experience in the petrochemical industry, leading commercial operations, chemical manufacturing and health, safety, environment and quality (HSEQ). Prior to AVN, he held numerous roles of increasing responsibility at Lyondell, Bayer Polymers, Bayer MaterialScience and Bayer CropScience and has led multiple regional and global teams to improve business results, reliability and safety systems. His entry into the chemical industry followed service as an officer in the United States Army.

In addition, he serves on the board of directors at Discover Real West Virginia Foundation and West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. He is vice chairman of the board at West Virginia Manufacturers Association and the immediate past chairman of the YPO Mountain State Gold board. Nationally, Mr. Hedrick serves on the board of Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA) is a member of Chemical and Specialties Management Council.

A native of West Virginia, he holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He completed the Bayer EMBA program at the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame and the Moonshots executive education program at Oxford University in Oxford, England.