Vice President, Information Technology and
Chief Information Officer
Kevin B. Michaelis was appointed vice president, Information Technology, and chief information officer in April 2012. In this role, he has overall responsibility for the company’s global information technology activities.
Mr. Michaelis joined Air Products in 1989 as a project engineer in the company’s Gases and Equipment Group. In 1994 he moved into a commercial role as an on-site development manager in Metals. Mr. Michaelis subsequently held positions of increasing responsibility in the company’s Chemicals and Electronics divisions, including general manager, on-site and pipeline sales for San Fu Chemicals―Air Products’ joint venture in Taiwan―and business manager of Electronics Facility Materials. He was named general manager, Global Generated Gases in 2006 followed by general manager, Worldwide Equipment, where he led the sale of equipment businesses for Tonnage Gases, Equipment and Energy. In 2011 Mr. Michaelis relocated to Hersham, U.K., where he was appointed regional vice president, Liquid Bulk/Generated Gases–Europe. He returned to the U.S. in 2012 to assume his current position.
Mr. Michaelis was born in 1961 in Camden, N.J. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Drexel University in 1984 and an M.B.A. from Temple University in 1992.
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