Elliott W.H. Johnson

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH, SAFETY, AND SECURITY (EHSS), CHEVRON

PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY

Elliott W.H. Johnson is senior vice president of environmental, health, safety and security (EHSS) for Chevron Phillips Chemical. He previously served as vice president for the department and holds significant experience across the company’s manufacturing, engineering and logistics operations.

Before assuming executive-level responsibility for EHSS, Johnson served as operations manager at the Cedar Bayou plant where he was responsible for safe and reliable operations of the company’s largest U.S. site. Prior to this role, he also served as the local maintenance manager.

During his more than 30-year career in the petrochemical industry, Johnson held multiple other roles of increasing responsibility, both at Chevron Phillips Chemical and beyond. Previous leadership assignments at the company included plant manager of the Orange plant and operations manager at Pasadena Plastics Complex. He also served as operations superintendent for the company’s U.S. Gulf Petrochemicals Project.

Johnson joined Chevron Phillips Chemical upon inception in 2000 after two years with Chevron Corporation. Prior to that, he worked for five years in various operations, engineering, maintenance and research and development positions at Eastman Chemical Company. While there, Johnson received a U.S. patent for his work in developing a unique scrubber system to eliminate emissions to the atmosphere by more than 400 tons/yr.

Johnson earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Mississippi State University.

Michael Johnson

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER, IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.

Michael Johnson is a seasoned human resources executive with over 23 years of experience. His career has allowed him to develop human resources leadership capabilities across multiple areas within animal and human healthcare. He has provided human resources leadership in all functional areas (Commercial, R&D, Manufacturing, etc.) across an extremely diverse human and animal healthcare landscape; including pharmaceuticals, core lab diagnostics, in-clinic diagnostics, orthopedics, ophthalmology and diabetes. During his career he has worked on five continents, and lived in 4 countries.

Currently, Michael is the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for IDEXX. IDEXX is a publicly traded, Fortune 1000 animal health diagnostics company. IDEXX operates in 175 countries with approximately 10,000 employees. Michael moved to this role in March 2022, and he is based in Westbrook, Maine at IDEXX’s headquarters. Prior to his current role, Michael was the Global Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Abbott.

Michael also served as the Vice President of Human Resources for Abbott’s diabetes business, based in Alameda, California. There he was responsible for HR across the globe, and provided the human resources leadership to successfully help the business grow. During his tenure, the business unit led the diabetes industry with aggressive growth and people practices. The business tripled in size, became number one in the industry, was the fastest growing business within Abbott for 4 years, impressively established one of the most diverse/progressive management teams in the industry and established industry leadership around topics of diversity and inclusion.

Michael is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he received an undergraduate degree in Organizational Administration. Michael has been an active member of multiple civic and professional organizations. He has served on multiple volunteer boards, including Habitat for Humanity, the Oakland Youth Symphony Orchestra and Methodist Youth Services of Chicago, and is currently serving on the Board of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. Michael has been a member of CALIBR (formerly NextGen nextwork) since 2006. Michael speaks regularly at conferences. Most recently he was a featured panelist for DiversityInc, Biocom California and LEAP HR. Michael and his wife Alicia reside in Falmouth, ME with their son and daughter. When not working, they’re usually playing music, golf or enjoying the outdoors.

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