Leadership

Jerome A. Peribere is president and chief executive officer of Dow AgroSciences. He assumed this position on February 1, 2004. Prior to this role, he served as global leader, Agricultural Chemicals.

Peribere joined The Dow Chemical Company in France in 1977 as a sales representative in Specialty Chemicals. He began working in the agricultural business in 1982 when he was named regional marketing manager of Eastern Europe. He moved to Geneva in 1985 as regional manager for the Middle East and Africa, and became European agriculture business director for Dow in 1988.

In 1989, he was appointed commercial director of Europe for Dow's agricultural business. Peribere moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1993 to assume the position of global commercial director. He became the Corporate Strategy leader for Dow AgroSciences in 1997, and in 1998 was named global leader, Weed Management Global Business Unit and European Trade Area. In September 2002, he became global leader of Agricultural Chemicals.

Peribere is a board member of BioCrossroads, a public-private collaboration that supports central Indiana's life science research and corporate strengths while encouraging new business development. He is a co-chair of the National FFA Convention Host Committee, a group of executives who are preparing Indianapolis, Indiana, for the 2006-2012 hosting of this premiere youth gathering of 54,000 teenagers, teachers, and other stakeholders who are interested in agriculture and the life sciences. Peribere is a member of the President's Advisory Group of CropLife International, a global network which represents the plant science industry. In addition, he is a member of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. In April 2005, Peribere was named a "Power Player in Life Science and Technology" by the Indianapolis Business Journal.

Peribere received a master's degree in business economics and finance from the Institute D'Etudes Politiques in Paris, France.