Asad Umar - Profile

Asad Umar is the President of Engro Corporation Limited since January 2004, the Chairman of all Engro subsidiaries and joint ventures. He was also the first President of Engro Polymer and Chemicals Limited. a joint venture of Engro and Mitsubishi Corporation. During his years at Engro, Mr. Umar has worked in all major divisions, namely Finance, Manufacturing, New Ventures and Marketing. Aside from working with the Company in Pakistan, he has also worked on assignment with Exxon Chemical in Canada. Mr. Umar is the Chairman of Pakistan Chemical and Energy Sector Skill Development Company, and member on the Boards of Pakistan Business Council, Karachi Education Initiative, Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance, State Bank of Pakistan, and Trustee of Lahore University of Management Sciences. Mr. Umar has previously served as Director of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited, Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy, Pakistan State Oil and Port Qasim Authority. He also served as Chair of Young Presidents' Organisation, Pakistan Chapter. Mr. Umar started his career with HSBC Pakistan and joined Exxon Chemical Pakistan Limited, later Engro Chemical Pakistan Limited now Engro Corporation Limited, in 1985.
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Fred Stross, a long-time Visiting Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Stross retired from a research career with the Shell Development Company in 1970, only to take up a second career in his retirement. He was a guest of Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division. An analytical chemist with a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Stross became interested in applying chemical methods to the study of archaeological artifacts. After retirement, he became a Research Associate with the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology and a consultant for UC Berkeley's RH Lowie Museum and the Berkeley University Art Museum. He began working with Professor Robert Fleming Heizer in the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Anthropology. Heizer was a distinguished archaeologist who studied Native American peoples of the western United States. Shortly after, he also began working with Frank Asaro in the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Nuclear Chemistry Division, who was applying chemical analysis methods including neutron activation analysis to the problem of determining where archaeological artifacts were made, as well as sometimes checking on their authenticity. For more than three decades, Stross worked with Asaro and others on artifacts from various cultures and ages. His most famous work may be his participation in the study of the origin of two Egyptian quartzite statues, the Colossi of Memnon, in a ...
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