Mr. John F. Hart

John F. Hart, Special Industry Advisor to CAS, has 30 years of diverse experience in the industrial / specialty chemical industry.Mr. Hart is skilled in corporate management and finance, strategic development, sales / marketing, manufacturing, and engineering project management.More specifically, Mr. Hart has had significant domestic sales and general management experience with such companies as: Cooper Energy Services (previously White Motor), Magnum Metals & Minerals, and, most recently, with HA International (a subsidiary Of Borden Chemical, Inc.).Mr. Hart's diverse experience with the global chemical industry developed while working for Ashland Chemical Company (a subsidiary of Ashland Oil), where he served in various management capacities for 16 years.His management experience with Ashland included seven years as Manager of International Operations & Licensing, three years as Director of Licensing, and three years as Vice President and General Manager of Ashland Chemical's subsidiary in Italy.During his tenure Mr. Hart managed international operations, which included 13 manufacturing locations and 18 administrative and sales offices.He also has established joint ventures and/or licensing agreements in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and the former USSR, as well as licensing technology in the US market.

Currently Mr. Hart is President/CEO of Chemtech Services, Inc., which, under the trade name "UIC Short Path Distillation Services" designs and manufactures chemical distillation systems and equipment, as well as providing distillation / recycling / chemical processing services at its plant location in Joliet, Illinois.Mr. Hart received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University in 1974 and is active in numerous chemical industry trade associations.

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While Gerald F. Toth, Jr., CAA's Managing Director and President, provides technical corporate finance and M&A expertise in CAS transactions and business relationships (see Executive Profiles - Gerald F. Toth, Jr.), CAS's Special Industry Advisor is John F. Hart.
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Mr. Hart is a highly seasoned executive with 30 years of diverse management experience in the industrial and specialty chemical industry.Although Mr. Hart has spent the majority of his career working in all key functional areas within large chemical companies (see Executive Profiles - John F. Hart), in early 2005 he acquired his own company (Chemtech Services, Inc.). Chemtech designs and manufactures chemical distillation systems and equipment, as well as providing contract distillation / recycling / chemical processing services at its manufacturing location in Joliet, Illinois.In addition to Mr. Hart's extensive contacts and relationships within the chemical industry, Mr. Toth also has a significant number of business relationships with owners of privately held middle-market companies in the chemical industry.
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By leveraging Mr. Hart's and Mr. Toth's overlapping and complementary experience - and their combined base of chemical industry contacts - CAS brings unusual value to its chemical industry clients, including: