Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> December 23, 2002
LAWRENCE E. WASHOW is President and Chief Executive Officer of
AMCOL International Corporation. He joined American Colloid Co.
as Manager of Personnel Service in 1978. He was promoted to
Manager of Industrial Relations in 1980 and Vice President in
1986. He became Senior Vice President of AMCOL in 1994. Mr.
Washow was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer in August 1997 and President and COO in August 1998. He
was named CEO in May 2000. He has a Bachelor's degree in
Communications from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a
Master's degree in Business Administration from Northwestern
University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston,
Illinois. Profile
International and then give us a picture of the company as it is
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Mr. Washow: AMCOL International was established 75 years
