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Dr. Attila Molnar

Bayer Corporation
President and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Attila Molnar was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Bayer Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Senior Bayer Representative for the United States and Canada on July 1, 2002.

Attila Molnar was born on August 17, 1948, in Thalmässing, Bavaria, Germany. He obtained a doctorate in chemistry from Erlangen University and joined Bayer AG on March 1, 1978, as a plant manager at the company's Leverkusen site. Two years later he moved to Bayer's U.S. subsidiary, known at that time as Mobay, where he worked in polyurethanes manufacturing in New Martinsville, W. Va., - and Baytown, Texas. He returned to Germany in 1983 as manager of the TDI facility in Brunsbüttel.

In 1986 Dr. Molnar was transferred back to the United States as Regional Production Manager for Polyurethanes and Coating Raw Materials in Baytown. In 1988 he moved to the company's U.S. headquarters in Pittsburgh where he was given overall responsibility for polyurethanes manufacturing in the U.S. On his return to Leverkusen in 1990, he was placed in charge of global manufacturing for the Coating and Special Raw Materials Business Group. In 1992 he also became Chairman of the Quality Management Steering Committee at Bayer AG, which is responsible for preparing and coordinating DIN and ISO certification of the company's various organization units. In 1996 Dr. Molnar was appointed General Manager of the Organic Chemicals - Business Group. The Supervisory Board named him to the Board of Management of Bayer AG effective April 1, 1999.

Dr. Molnar is active in many professional organizations and serves on the Board and the Executive Committee of the American Chemistry Council as well as the Board of the National Association of Manufacturers. He is also a member of the Governing Board of the Carnegie Bosch Institute and the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he sits on the Boards of Directors of Allegheny Heart Institute; the Allegheny Conference; Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse; and the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.

Dr. Molnar and his wife, Patty, live in Pittsburgh.