George R. Hamilton is Vice President of Olympic Operations for The Dow Chemical Company. Mr. Hamilton oversees Dow’s sponsorship of the International Olympic Games through 2020. The Olympic Sponsorship provides Dow with a platform to demonstrate how it’s technology contributes to Sustainability and to the progress of mankind. Additionally, the Olympic infrastructure creates a large market opportunity for many of Dow’s products from energy efficiency and coatings for the buildings to plastics for stadium seats and sports equipment.

Hamilton joined The Dow Chemical Company in 1977 as a seller of plastics to the automotive industry and has held a variety of positions in sales, marketing, application development and business operations during his 32 years with the company. Prior to his current role, he managed two global business units for Dow as Vice President of Dow Coating Solutions and as President of Dow Automotive. Most recently Hamilton was responsible for the establishment of Dow’s Government Markets practice which partners with government to advance innovation and growth in areas such as alternative energy and energy efficiency using Dow products and technologies, and to drive public policy to support such innovations.