Jim Collins Biography

Senior vice president of DuPont, James C. Collins, Jr. joined DuPont in 1984. His career started in DuPont Manufacturing where he held positions in supervision, business management and engineering at different plant sites. He is in charge of Performance Polymers and Packaging & Industrial Polymers businesses, Industrial Biosciences, and responsible for leading the company’s renewably sourced initiatives. He then moved to Wilmington, Del., where he worked in Ag Sales & Marketing Group in 1993. Across the globe, he served many roles which supported the growth of DuPont’s agricultural businesses and integrated Pioneer Hi-Bred International and Protein Technologies International (PTI). He also led DuPont’s production agriculture businesses to grow their presence fast in Asia while he was living in Hong Kong. First, as vice president, then general manager and then president; Mr. Collins was in control of DuPont’s Crop Protection from 2004 to 2010. He led the integration of Danisco into DuPont when he was appointed in 2011 as Vice President for Acquisition & Integration. And for the newly formed DuPont Industrial Biosciences (which was founded from the Danisco transaction), he was named president in May 2011 and held the position till September 2013. From the University of Delaware, he received an MBA in Marketing with a focus on International Business and he also attended Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, and earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. For his efforts to promote Agriculture education with the youth in the United States, he was given an honorary American FFA Degree. He was named one of the Most Influential People in Bioenergy by Biofuels in 2012.

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