Zoltan Merszei

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Zoltan Merszei (born September 30, 1922 in Budapest ) is a Canadian manager who was CEO at Dow Chemical from 1976 to 1979 .

Merszei was born in Hungary in 1922. In 1939 he fled to Switzerland and studied at the ETH Zurich . He began his career with Dow in Canada in 1949. He spent most of his career in Europe - he became European General Manager in 1961 and President of Dow Europe in 1965. He was u. A. responsible for the construction of the Dow plant in Stade and the expansion of the plant in Terneuzen .

In May 1976, Merszei was named CEO of Dow. In 1978 he was removed from the Board of Directors prematurely because of his leadership style , and was succeeded by Paul F. Oreffice . He was then President from 1979 to 1980 and Vice Chairman until 1986 at Occidental Petroleum .

His son Geoffery Merszei also worked for Dow Chemical.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Oreffice: Only in America . Stroud & Hall Publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9745376-7-2 , pp. 217 ( Google Books ).
  2. ^ Leonard Sloane: Occidental Challenges Merszei . In: The New York Times . April 17, 1979 ( nytimes.com ).
  3. ↑ PEOPLE . In: New York Times . May 7, 1978 ( nytimes.com ).
  4. ↑ Dangerous bloating . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1970 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Dow Chemical builds at Stadersand. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 24, 1968. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ How companies pick new CEOs: A Fortune book excerpt. In: Fortune . January 4, 1988. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Baird Removed As President Of Occidental. In: Washington Post . July 25, 1979. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Donald Woutat: Merszei Resigns as Occidental's Vice Chairman . In: Los Angeles Times . April 16, 1986 ( latimes.com ).
  9. ↑ Geoffery Merszei to Retire After 30 Years of Service , June 12, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Merszei, Zoltan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Canadian manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest