Description
Sustainability goes beyond our environmental footprint, smart manufacturing practices, and renewable and responsible natural resource use. Our greatest contribution to making our world more sustainable is derived from our innovations — those that are solving the world’s most pressing problems. This is where we can make the most impact.
Contributors
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Alexa Dembek, Chief Sustainability Officer, DuPont
Alexa Dembek is the Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer for DuPont. A 28-year DuPont veteran, Alexa is a born problem-solver, innovator and education advocate. She championsthe company’s entrepreneurial mindset to spur growth, while fostering close collaboration with customers and strategic partners alike.
The business success Alexa has achieved is emblematic of her passion for enabling innovation to flourish, a consistent theme spanning her career at DuPont. Among her many accomplishments, she played a pivotal role in transforming the company’s centralized R&D model to a more responsive, market-oriented innovation machine embedded within each of the company’s businesses.
Today, Alexa leads business and innovation strategy alignment to make the most impactful portfolio choices for DuPont. Her goal is to make every investment dollar count to quickly drive innovation to market. She is passionate about elevating the role sustainability plays in these investment decisions and how DuPont can help customers achieve their own sustainability ambitions with our solutions.
Both in her work for DuPont and her personal endeavors, Alexa is an ardent champion of the next generation of innovators. Through various education initiatives, she has seen the value that comes from diverse, cross-generational collaboration. She serves on the dean’s advisory board for Penn State’s Eberly College of Science and is active with the Delaware Innovation Space, a partnership between the University of Delaware and the state that incubates startups.