{"id":32208,"date":"2014-12-16T04:31:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T09:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=32208"},"modified":"2014-12-15T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:03:16","slug":"owens-corning-ceo-to-address-graduates-dec-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/12_16_2014\/owens-corning-ceo-to-address-graduates-dec-20","title":{"rendered":"Owens Corning CEO to address graduates Dec. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Thaman, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Owens Corning, will be the speaker at The University of Toledo fall commencement ceremony Saturday, Dec. 20, at 10 a.m. in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n

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Thaman<\/p><\/div>He will address graduates from the colleges of Health Sciences; Adult and Lifelong Learning; Social Justice and Human Service; Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Business and Innovation; Communication and the Arts; Languages, Literature and Social Sciences; and the Judith Herb College of Education.<\/p>\n

\u201cMike Thaman\u2019s vision and leadership are truly aligned with the University\u2019s commitment to best equip out students with knowledge and guidance that will help them succeed,\u201d said Dr. Nagi Naganathan, UT interim president.<\/p>\n

There are 2,252 candidates for degrees, including 113 doctoral candidates, 594 master\u2019s candidates and 1,461 bachelor\u2019s candidates. The remaining 84 candidates are for education specialist and associate\u2019s degrees, as well as graduate certificates. <\/p>\n

The ceremony will be broadcast live on video.utoledo.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be rescheduled for Sunday, Dec. 21, at 10 a.m. in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n

Thaman has held positions in manufacturing, corporate development and international business since joining Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials and composite systems, in 1992.<\/p>\n

His titles have included vice president and president of the Engineered Pipe Systems business headquartered in Brussels; vice president and president of Owens Corning\u2019s Exterior Systems Business; and senior vice president and chief financial officer.<\/p>\n

A longtime corporate strategist, Thaman emphasizes a human-proportioned approach in helping American businesses thrive.<\/p>\n

When he accepted a company leadership award from the National Safety Council earlier this year, he focused on the human rights aspect of company safety. \u201cFor more than 75 years, Owens Corning has understood the importance of having engaged, productive employees who arrive home to their families and friends, without incident, the same way they left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to 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. <\/p>\n

He serves as director of Florida Power & Light Co., Owens Corning Fabricating Solutions and Advanced Glassfiber Yarns LLC. For NextEra Energy Inc., Thaman was an independent director for more than 10 years and its lead director until this year. He served as a director of AGY Holding Corp., and as director of Florida Power & Light Group Inc.<\/p>\n

Thaman earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.<\/p>\n

Other UT commencement ceremonies taking place are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 College of Engineering: graduate commencement Thursday, Dec. 18, at 5 p.m.; undergraduate commencement Saturday, Dec. 20, at 3 p.m. Both ceremonies will be held in Nitschke Hall Auditorium.<\/p>\n

\u2022 College of Nursing: Friday, Dec. 19, at 1 p.m. in Nitschke Hall Auditorium.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit utoledo.edu\/commencement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Thaman, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Owens Corning, will deliver UT’s commencement address Saturday, Dec. 20, to 2,252 candidates for degrees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,5,53,39,40,7,51,54,37,52],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}