Leadership
Gregory S. Babe
President and Chief Executive Officer
Bayer Corporation and Bayer MaterialScience LLC
Greg Babe was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Bayer Corporation and Senior Bayer Representative for the United States and Canada in October 2008. He is responsible for the North American activities of the worldwide Bayer Group, an international health care, nutrition and innovative materials group based in Leverkusen, Germany.
In addition, he is the President and CEO of Bayer MaterialScience LLC – a position he has held since July 2004.
Previously, Mr. Babe served as president and CEO of Bayer Corporate and Business Services LLC (BCBS) where he was responsible for providing expertise and support in engineering, information systems, procurement, materials management, human resources, financial, accounting and other business services to Bayer Corporation and its affiliates.
Mr. Babe joined Bayer in 1976 as an intern in the Polyurethanes Group and has held several management positions of increasing responsibility, including manager of the Brunsbüttel, Germany, facility; director and general manager of Hennecke Machinery, then a unit of Bayer’s Polymers Division in Pennsylvania; vice president of corporate quality; and director of a national program to implement Bayer’s enterprise resource planning system. He was named senior vice president of information services in 1999, and in 2001, that role was expanded to include the NAFTA region. When Mr. Babe was named president and CEO of BCBS in 2003, he continued his role as chief information officer.
Mr. Babe is the chair of the Bayer Political Action Committee (BAYPAC) and the Bayer USA Foundation. For five years he served as the executive sponsor of the Bayer Diversity Advisory Council.
Mr. Babe is the executive chair of the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Responsible Care® Board Committee, and he is a member of the ACC’s Board of Directors; Chemical Management Committee; and Audit, Finance and Membership Committee. He is also on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Society of the Chemical Industry and the Business Higher Education Forum.
In Pittsburgh, he serves on the Allegheny Conference on Community Development’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and he serves on Duquesne University’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Mr. Babe is also a member of West Virginia University’s Engineering and Computer Science Education Enterprise Advisory Committee.
A native of West Virginia, Mr. Babe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University.
Mr. Babe is married, has four children and resides in Mt. Lebanon, Pa.