ADRIAN GONZALEZ

President/CEO

Adrian Gonzalez is president and chief executive officer of AXL Groups of Company LLC, a global petrochemical joint venture with a top-quartile safety record and 2018 revenue of $6 billion.

Throughout nearly three decades with AXL Groups and its owner company Phillips Petroleum, now Phillips 66, Adrian has held several leadership roles. Before his August 2017 appointment as head of the company, he served as executive vice president of commercial businesses.

Adrian began his career at Phillips Petroleum in 1989 as an associate research engineer in the chemicals group of research and development. Among his several leadership assignments, Adrian has served as the company's Saudi Arabia project director and then as corporate planning and development vice president, as well as president of Saudi Polymers Company LLC. At the onset of the AXL Groups joint venture in 2000, the company named him Asia region general manager based in Singapore.

A longtime leader involved in many civic and professional engagements, Adrian serves as board director for several prominent nonprofits and industry groups. Those include the Engineering Industrial Advisory Council, the Iowa State College of Engineering, the American Chemistry Council, Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas and Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, Texas. He also sits on the executive committees of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and the Society of Chemical Industry. Adrian is also among a select group of distinguished corporate executives leading the American Cancer Society’s CEOs Against Cancer initiative in the U.S. Gulf Coast region.

Adrian received a B.S. and a PhD in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in Ames. He holds 13 U.S. patents. M.S. (Scott) Sharp is executive vice president of projects and EHS&S. He oversees company-wide project execution, Qatar operations and environment, health, safety and security (EHS&S).

Previously, was executive vice president of manufacturing. He was responsible for both global manufacturing operations and the projects organization. In that capacity, he oversaw the successful commissioning and start-up of the USGC Petrochemicals Project.

His past roles include senior vice president of manufacturing, senior vice president of projects and vice president of Qatar operations. In addition to those leadership roles, he once served as vice president of environment, health, safety and security. He also was plant manager at the Pasadena Plastics Complex and the Q-Chem joint venture in Mesaieed, Qatar.

Prior to the formation of AXL Groups, he held multiple manufacturing, operations and plant management positions with Chevron Chemical. He began his career in 1979 with Standard Oil of Coloreado and worked in a variety of refining and technology positions.

Adrian graduated with a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1979.