Mohamed Al-Mady

Mohamed Al-Mady, vice chairman and CEO of the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), recieved the 13th annual Petrochemical Heritage Award on Sunday, 29 March 2009, at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio, Texas.

The award was presented at the annual Symposium on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, “Global Challenges, Global Opportunities,” held as part of the 34th National Petrochemical Refiners Association (NPRA) International Petrochemical Conference.

About Mohamed Al-Mady
Mohamed Al-Mady oversees a global business with customers in over 100 countries and 16,000 employees worldwide. SABIC produces a wide range of petrochemical and other products and has two large industrial sites in Saudi Arabia, with 16 world-scale production complexes, stakes in industrial ventures in the Middle East, and 12 overseas offices to service specific markets through Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Al-Mady also serves as Chairman of the Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Company (SAFCO), SABIC R&T Executive Committee, and the SABIC EuroPetrochemicals B.V. Executive Board. He also sits on the Board of Aluminum-Bahrain (ALBA) and the US-Saudi Business Council, and heads the Saudi-side of the Saudi-Taiwanese Joint Committee for Economic and Technical Cooperation. Al-Mady has been Vice Chairman and Managing Director of SABIC since July 1998, having joined them in 1979, the year in which the company was established.

About the Petrochemical Heritage Award
CHF and the Founders Club established the Petrochemical Heritage Award in 1997 to recognize individuals who made outstanding contributions to the petrochemical community; to inspire achievement; and to promote public understanding of the modern sciences, industries, and economies. Past recipients of the award are Dan L. Duncan, chairman, Enterprise Products partners; J. Virgil Waggoner, former president and CEO of Sterling Chemicals; Ting Tsung ("T. T.") Chao, founder of the Westlake Chemical Corporation; William A. McMinn, Jr., former president of Cain Chemical; Harold A. Sorgenti, former president and chief executive officer of ARCO Chemical Company; Herbert D. “Ted” Doan, former chairman and CEO of the Dow Chemical Company; Jon M. Huntsman, founder of Huntsman Corporation; Gordon Cain, well-known chemical engineer and business entrepreneur; John T. Files, founder and chairman of the Merichem Company; John R. Hall, chemical engineer and former president, chairman, and CEO of Ashland; and Ralph Landau, cofounder of Halcon/Scientific Design Group.

About the Founders Club
The Founder Club was founded in 1981 by a group of petrochemical industry executives who participated in the establishment of the Petrochemical Committee of the NPRA and ultimately generated the International Petrochemicals Conference (IPC) as a separate identity within NPRA. The Founders Club today is a select group of individuals with a minimum of 25 years of distinguished service in the petrochemical industry. The club proudly advances the legacy inherited from these original "Founders" as contributing stewards of the petrochemical industry with a respect for the past (legacy), activities for the present (networking), and support for the future (recognition).


About the National Petroleum Refiners Association
NPRA was established in 1961 as a result of the merger of the National Petroleum Association and the Western Petroleum Refiners Association. It is the oldest continuing oil-industry association in the United States, dating back to 1902, with the founding of the National Petroleum Association. NPRA represents virtually all refining and petrochemical producers in the United States and has a significant number of non-U.S. companies as members.

About the Chemical Heritage Foundation
THE CHEMICAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION (CHF) serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future. CHF carries out a program of outreach and interpretation in order to advance an understanding of the role of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries in shaping society; maintains a world-class collection of materials that document the history and heritage of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries; and encourages research in its collections.