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Sanjay Dayal

  • Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
  • Pact Group Holdings Pty Ltd

Sanjay Dayal is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Pact Group Holdings Pty Ltd and has been a member of the Pact Group Board since 1 March 2019.

Sanjay joined Pact Group from BlueScope Steel where he held the position of Chief Executive, Building Products, Corporate Strategy and Innovation. This followed several other senior positions in Asia and Australia over a 9-year period with the company.

Prior to BlueScope, Sanjay had a very successful career with Orica and ICI, including Regional General Manager for Manufacturing and Supply Chain and General Manager for the DynoNobel Integration, based out of London.

Sanjay holds a Bachelor of Technology (Chemical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi.

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Karen Dobson

  • Chair, Chemistry Australia
  • Independent

Karen Dobson is Chair of the Chemistry Australia Board.

In her previous role as Managing Director of Dow Australia and New Zealand, Karen was responsible for Dow’s business and operations, and advancing the company’s strategy and reputation across Australia and New Zealand.   

Karen joined Dow in 1987 as an engineer at the Altona manufacturing facility in Victoria. In 1988, she moved to Dow Water & Process Solutions (W&PS) as technical sales for Australia. In 1992 she was named Asia Pacific technical leader and relocated to Hong Kong, where she performed a number of marketing and commercial manager roles. In 2002, Karen was named global marketing director for FILMTEC™ Membranes and relocated to Minneapolis, USA.

Karen moved to Shanghai in 2007 for a new role as corporate marketing director for Dow Asia Pacific and in 2010 added the role of Asia Pacific regional business development director. Karen was appointed to global business director for Mining Solutions in Dow’s Oil, Gas and Mining business in 2014 and relocated back to Melbourne, Australia.

In August 2017, Karen was named global commercial director of Dow Olympic & Sports Solutions where she was responsible for growing the business impact of Dow’s sports sponsorship assets across all of Dow’s businesses. Karen took up her current role in January 2019.

Karen holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia.