Aether Industries Limited has announced the appointment of Dr. James (Jim) W. Ringer as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with effect from March 1, 2024.

Dr. Ringer has already been working with Aether for the last 3 years as Business Development/ Technology Leader (Americas). Previously, Dr. Ringer had a career spanning more than 30 years in R&D at the Dow Chemical Company (USA).

He joined Dow in 1988, where he worked on the process development of new products for Dow AgroSciences from 1989 until 2001. Subsequent roles at Dow included Dow AgroSciences New Products Development Leader (2002), Process Sciences Leader (2002), Senior Technical Leader for Process Sciences (2004), and Director of Process Chemistry & Development (2010).

For 2011-2018, he was the Director of Engineering & Process Science for the Dow Core R&D organization, where his teams were responsible for the development and implementation of technology for numerous business areas spanning electronic, agricultural, pharmaceutical, polymers, specialty chemicals as well as hydrocarbon feedstocks.

During this tenure, his organization generated a 10x return on the R&D investment (> $ 100 MM per year).

As part of the Dow - DuPont merger and spinoff, he became the Process Development and BioProcessing & BioEngineering Leader for Corteva AgriScience. Dr. Ringer is a co-inventor on 22 USA patents granted globally. He graduated from Purdue University (B.S. Chemistry, USA) and University of Wisconsin (Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, USA).