Owens Corning Chairman of the Board, CEO to deliver annual Hiner Lecture

Owens Corning CEO Michael Thaman will deliver this year's Hiner Distinguished Lecture.

Michael Thaman, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Owens Corning, will present “Owens Corning: Building a Sustainable Enterprise,” on Friday, October 27, at 3 p.m., at West Virginia University. The lecture, part of the Glen H. Hiner Distinguished Lecture Series in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, will be held in room 113 of the Mineral Resources Building on the Evansdale campus.

Thaman was named a member of the Board of Directors at Owens Corning, a world leader in insulation, roofing and fiberglass composites, in January 2002 and elected chairman later that year. He has served as president and chief executive officer since 2007. 

Thaman began his career at Owens Corning in 1992 and has held leadership positions in finance, manufacturing, corporate development and international business. In 1997, he became vice president and president of the company's Engineered Pipe Systems business based in Brussels, Belgium. In 1999, he was named vice president and president of Owens Corning's Exterior Systems Business and in April 2000, he was appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer.

Before joining Owens Corning, Thaman spent six years as a strategy consultant at Mercer Management Consulting, where he was a vice president in the New York office.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.

Thaman is a member of the boards of directors of Kohler Co. and The Sherwin-Williams Company. He serves on the Policy Advisory Board of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing. He also serves as a member of the Business Roundtable, the Ohio Business Roundtable Executive Committee and the boards of directors of the Toledo Museum of Art and the Toledo Symphony.

Now in its 12th year, the Glen H. Hiner Distinguished Lecture Series is named in honor of the outstanding alumnus who, in 2005, established an endowment to support the deanship of the Statler College at WVU.

Hiner graduated from WVU’s Department of Electrical Engineering in 1957, and then embarked on an outstanding 35-year career with General Electric. In 1992, he became chief executive officer of Owens Corning. He has served on several Statler College’s advisory committees, as a visiting professor in the WVU College of Business and Economics and as a member of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors.

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