Vice President, Corporate Communications
Elizabeth (Betsy) L. Klebe was appointed vice president of Corporate Communications in June 2005. She has global responsibility for media, financial, crisis, employee and marketing communications; reputation management; public relations; brand management; visual communications and communications technology.
Ms. Klebe joined Air Products in 1980 in the Human Resources department, where she held positions of increasing responsibility in compensation, diversity and human resources operations. In 1992 she was named director of Quality within the company’s Process Systems Group, and in 1994 her role expanded to include the Gases and Equipment Group’s quality efforts. She became director of Corporate Communications in 1999 before assuming her current position.
Ms. Klebe was born in New Castle, Pa. She received a B.S. degree in journalism from West Virginia University in 1979. Ms. Klebe is a member of the Conference Board’s Council on Corporate Communications Strategy and serves as its Chairwoman. She is also a member of the Arthur W. Page Society; secretary of the board of directors of the State Theatre of Easton, Pa.; and a member of the Visiting Committee of the P.I. Reed School of Journalism of West Virginia University.
12/2009
Back to Leadership