From left: CME ACS Past Chair and Leadership Awards Founder George Rodriguez, Buenaventura Chairman Roque Benavides, Shionogi President and CEO John Keller,

and Trinseo President and CEO Christopher Pappas.

From left: Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton, Thessa Navarro, Buenaventura Chairman Roque Benavides, Helen Kroh, Shionogi President and CEO John Keller, Susan Pappas, Trinseo President and CEO Christopher Pappas and

CME Chair Charles Brumlik.

Top: Metropolitan Club Great Hall. Bottom: West Lounge (website picture).

Leadership Awards event reception at the Metropolitan Club Great Hall.

Above from left: Dow Coatings Business President Neil Carr and Dow Lead Counsel Michael McCarty. Below: Metropolitan Club patio entrance.

Above: UN Deputy Director Zoila Poire salutes honoree Buenaventura Chairman Roque Benavides. Below: Peruvians next to the Great Hall Christmas tree.

Above: Guests go to luncheon tables. Below: CME ACS registration team at the Great Hall.

Honorees table. Top clockwise from left: Shionogi CEO John Keller,

ACS CAS Vice President Craig Stephens, Thessa Navarro,

Buenaventura Chairman Roque Benavides, CME Past Chair George Rodriguez, ACS NY Treasurer Frank

Romano, Helen Kroh.

Bottom right clockwise from left: Smithsonian Secretary David

Skorton, Standing: David Wasserman and President and

Trinseo CEO Chris Pappas, Susan Pappas and Frank Romano

Honorees table.

Above: Shionogi Table. Below: ACS Publications Table.

Above: LyondellBasell Table. Below: Univar Table.

Above: HSBC Table. Below: Bain, Arsenal, Dow Tables.

Above: AmSty Table. Below: PwC Table.

Above: Trinseo Table. Below: CME Table.

Above: Peruvian delegation from the consulates of NY and NJ and the United Nations. Below: Table with Peruvian Executives from Wall Street.

Above: Pappas Family Table. Below: Trinseo Table.

CME Student Volunteer Cicely Shillingford, PhD candidate at NYU.

CME Chair Dr. Charles Brumlik thanks students and STEM supporters.

Above: Students from Stuyvesant High School. Below: Award Presentation Remarks

John KellerPresident and CEO

From left: Helen Kroh and husband Leadership Award for Extraordinary Innovation honoree Shionogi Inc. President and CEO John Keller.

Roque BenavidesChairman

From left: Thessa Navarro and husband honoree of Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement Buenaventura Chairman Roque Benavides.

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David SkortonSecretary

From left: George Rodriguez gives Leadership Award for Science Involvement to Smithsonian Secretary Dr. David Skorton.

Above: CME Vice Chair Adam Closson closing remarks. Below: Speaker CME student volunteer Cicely Schillingford, George Rodriguez and CME Treasurer Dr. Karin Bartels.

Above: STEM students and teacher from Stuyvesant High School.Below: CME table.

Above: ACS Journals posters. Below: Nestor Villar Trio.

Corporate

Reinvention

Christopher

Pappas

President and CEO

of Trinseo and

Chairman of the

Society of Chemical

Industry

Lifetime

Achievement

Roque

Benavides

Chairman of

Buenaventura

and former Board

Member of the World

Gold Council

Tuesday December 5, 2017 • 11:30 am – 2:30 pm

Metropolitan Club, 1 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022

www.cmeacs.org

Science

Involvement

David

Skorton

13th Secretary of the

Smithsonian

Institution and Past

President of Cornell

University

Extraordinary

Innovation

John

Keller

President and CEO of

Shionogi Inc. and

President of the New

York Pharma Forum

Historic Scientific

Achievement

Craig Venter, PhD

Co-Founder and

Chairman of Human

Longevity Inc.

Aerospace

Innovaion

Janet Kavndi. PhD

Director of NASA’s

Glenn Research

Center.

Propelling

Science

Harry Gray, PhD

Caltech Arnold O.

Beckman Professor of

Chemistry;

2017 Event Organized by CME and the ACS Polymer Chemistry Division (POLY).

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