Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> June 3, 1999
GEORGE MACKENZIE, JR. is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer of Hercules Incorporated and an advisory member of the Board of
Directors as well as a member of the Hercules Management Committee. A
native of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, Mr. MacKenzie received a B.S.
degree from the University of Delaware in 1971 and an M.B.A. degree from
the University of Chicago in 1973. He was employed as a General Practice
Audit Manager in the Philadelphia office of Coopers & Lybrand before
joining Hercules in 1979 as an Assistant Manager of Corporate
Accounting. He was appointed Manager, Corporate Reporting in 1980 and
Controller in 1983. In 1988, he was named Vice President and Controller
and in 1991 became Vice President and Treasurer. In 1995, he was named
Vice President, Finance, and later that year he was named Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer. He assumed his current position in 1996.
Mr. MacKenzie is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Medical Center
of Delaware and the Accounting Advisory Board at the University of
Delaware as well as Manufacturers' Alliance. He is a member of both, the
American and the Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public
Accountants, as well as the Institute of Management Accountants and the
Financial Executives Institute, where he recently served as President of
the Delaware Chapter. He is also a member of the Board of Opera,
Delaware. Profile
your history, products, services, customers, those kinds of things?
Mr. MacKenzie: Hercules was spun-off from DuPont in
