Edward D. Breen (born c. 1956) is an American business executive. He is the Executive Chairman of

DuPont DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in ...

. Prior to this, he was the chair of the board and CEO of

, a role he started on November 9, 2015. He also serves as a director of

Comcast Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...

. Prior to his role at DuPont, Breen was the Chairman and CEO of

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. ''The Wall Street Journal'' called Breen a "breakup expert" at the time he took the position as DuPont's CEO. It was believed at the time that he would increase the chances of the company's breakup, a distinct possibility since Trian Fund Management, DuPont's fifth largest shareholder at the time, was demanding the breakup of the company. In March 2016, it was reported that Dow Chemical Co. and the DuPont Co. agreed to pay $27 million to DuPont CEO Edward Breen if he left the company by early 2017. In February 2020, Breen was reinstated as DuPont CEO replacing Marc Doyle. Breen is an alumnus of

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and serves as the chair of the college's board of trustees.

Recognition

In December, 2018 he received the Leadership Award for Historic Corporate Reinvention from the Chemical Marketing and Economics group of the

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’s New York Section. He was honored for the merger he put into place between Dow Chemical Co. and E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. He was also named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by

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References

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