About Our Sponsor: Paul Chellgren
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Mr. Chellgren is an operating partner with Snow Phipps Group, LLC, a New York City private equity firm. He is a director or trustee of the PNC Financial Services Group and Centre College. He is a partner/director of numerous private organizations. He is a trustee of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Northern Kentucky University Foundation and Eastern Kentucky University Foundation and the Institute for Fine Arts. He is chair of the board of Cincinnati's Taft Museum of Art; vice chair of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, and he is a member of the Commercial Club of Cincinnati.
Mr. Chellgren earned a B.S. from the University of Kentucky, an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a D.D.E. from England's Oxford University, where he has been named an Honorary Fellow. Mr. Chellgren joined Ashland Inc. in 1974 and moved through numerous positions. In January 1992, he was elected president and chief operating officer and member of the board of directors. He was elected chief executive officer October 1, 1996, and chairman of the board on January 30, 1007. He retired at the end of 2002. Prior to joining Ashland, Mr. Chellgren was an associate with McKinsey & Company in London, England, and Washington, D.C. He served as an operations analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington D.C. His prior operations and managerial experience includes service at Boise Cascade and Universal Capital Corp.
A native of Tullahoma, Tennessee, Paul and his wife Deborah resides in Villa Hills, Kentucky.