Minerals Technologies Names D. Randy Harrison Senior Vice President, Organization & Human Resources
D.J. Monagle III to Succeed Harrison As Vice President & Managing Director, Performance Minerals
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2007--Minerals Technologies Inc. (NYSE: MTX) announced today that it has named D. Randy Harrison senior vice president, Organization and Human Resources, effective January 1, 2008. Mr. Harrison had been vice president and managing director of Performance Minerals, which includes the company's Processed Minerals and Specialty Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC) product lines. He will succeed Gordon S. Borteck, who will be resigning from the company.
D. J. Monagle III, formerly vice president, Americas, Paper PCC, has been named vice president & managing director of Performance Minerals. He will also become a member of the Leadership Council, the company's senior management team.
Mr. Harrison joined the company in March 1987, as a market development manager and advanced to positions of higher responsibility in sales and marketing in the company's Paper PCC product line. He was named Vice President, Marketing in 1999 and promoted to Vice President and Managing Director of Specialty PCC in 2001. In January of 2002, Mr. Harrison was appointed Vice President and Managing Director, Performance Minerals and a member of the company's senior management team.
Mr. Harrison holds B.S. degrees in Biology and Chemistry from Olgethrope University, graduating magna cum laude, and a Masters degree in Bio-Organic Chemistry from Penn State University, graduating cum laude. Before joining the company, he worked for American Cyanamid from 1978 to 1987.
D.J. Monagle joined the company in 2003 as director, Global Marketing, Paper PCC. He was named vice president, North America, PCC in 2004 and to vice president, the Americas, PCC in 2006. Before joining Minerals Technologies, Mr. Monagle worked for Hercules Inc. between 1990 and 2003, where he held various sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility. He holds a B. S. degree in Chemistry from Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Minerals Technologies Inc. is a global resource- and technology-based growth company that develops, produces and markets worldwide a broad range of specialty mineral, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products and related systems and services. The company recorded sales on $1.06 billion in 2006.
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