BMGT is about the business of chemistry.

We focus on the essentials that actualize chemistry’s solutions - like management, safety, regulations, sales and marketing - everything inside and outside the laboratory that develops and produces products that improve our lives and make the world better.

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2025 Officers and Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is the governing body of the Division comprising the Officers of the Division, the Immediate Past-Chair, the Councilors and Alternate Councilors, a Member-at-Large, and the Chairs of the standing committees.

Elected Members

Suguna Rachakonda, Chair

Mevan Dissnayake, Chair-Elect

Judy Cohen, Immediate Past Chair

Kyle Hart, Secretary (2025-27)

Mick Hurrey, Treasurer (2024-2025)

Janet Bryant, Councilor (2024-2026)

Jarrod Cohen, Alternate Councilor (2025-2027)

Jens Breffke, Member-At-Large (2025-2027)

Appointed Members

Judy Cohen, Awards Committee Chair

Philipp Werner, Program Chair

Mark Jones, Communications Chair

Open, Membership Chair

BMGT Operations Handbook (Updated 2021)

Awards and Recognition

2016 ACS Salute to Excellence

For support of ACS President Diane Grob Schmidt's Presidential programming from 2014–2016.

Salutes to Excellence is an outreach program that gives ACS local sections, technical divisions, regional meetings, and national committees an opportunity to underscore outstanding accomplishments or achievements of service by external partners who have made a positive impact on everyday life or who have helped contribute to greater public awareness of chemistry.

2013, 2012, 2011 ACS ChemLuminary Awards

In recognition of innovation and outstanding service to members of a Division

This ACS ChemLuminary Award is awarded by the Divisional Activities Committee to honor a division for unique activities or programs during the last fiscal year as provided in their annual report.

BMGT History

Beginnings

The beginnings of the division go back to the early 1940s, when a group of chemical engineers formed the Technical Service Group of the Chemical Industry (later the Commercial Chemical Development Association).

During 1946, members of the Technical Service Group tried to broaden the membership standards to build a more diverse and inclusive membership. The move failed, but the interested members then explored the possibility of setting up a parallel group in the Society, with the Technical Service Group to provide guidance. The result was the formation, in 1947, of the chemical marketing section of the ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry.

The section became a subdivision of the I&EC division in 1950 and, finally, an independent division. The ACS Division of Chemical Marketing and Economics was formed in September 1952, with Fred A Soderverg as chairman and Hal G. Johnson as secretary-treasurer.

Today

Today, BMGT is a business and management focused organization with global reach.

Our members are managers and leaders in the business community. Together, we provide unique networking opportunities to our members, communicate business trends and topics, and act as a leader for innovation and globalization in the ACS technical divisions.

BMGT Bylaws (Revised 2017)