Joe Fox is the Director of Emerging and External Technologies for Ashland Inc., a global diversified specialty chemical company. He has been with Ashland for twenty years and has served in his current role for six years.
Joe is responsible for a portfolio of growth and platform projects in support of Ashland’s Performance Materials Division, a leading supplier of thermosetting resins for polymer composite applications. He leads the efforts in Performance Materials to develop bioproducts that use renewable resources in place of petroleum-based raw materials.
Joe is the focal point for Performance Materials’ open innovation initiatives and for identifying technology at other companies, universities and federal laboratories that can impact Ashland. He serves on the board of the Industrial Research Institute, Polymer Ohio, and the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center.
Joe received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Lehigh University and his Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry from Penn State. He and his wife Susan live in Dublin, Ohio and have four children and two grandchildren.