Deborah L. Grubbe, P.E. Deborah Grubbe is the Operations and Engineering Director for DuPont Nonwovens where she is accountable for manufacturing, engineering, safety, environmental and information systems in a growth business with $1 billion in revenue, $100 million of annual capital expenditures and 8 manufacturing facilities worldwide. She has 21 years of experience in five of DuPont's 16 Strategic Business Units. Deborah was also the director of DuPont Engineering's 600 person engineering technology organization. Her 14 different assignments range from capital project implementation through manufacturing management and human resources. She currently co-chairs the DuPont Corporate Operations Network People Team, a body that manages strategic operations personnel deployment and development for global DuPont. Deborah currently serves on the Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering New Directions Executive Committee. She is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the Society of Women Engineers at Purdue and at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a former board member of the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN). She has recently been nominated to the Board of Directors of the Engineering and Construction Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Deborah is the former co-chair of the Benchmarking and Metrics Committee of the Construction Industry Institute, and was the first woman and youngest elected member on the State of Delaware Registration Board for Professional Engineers (1985-1989). During her tenure on the State Board, she was the Chair of the Law Enforcement and Ethics Committee. In May of this year Deborah represented DuPont at the National Academy of Engineering's Forum on Women in Engineering. She has been featured in the books "Engineering Your Way to Success" and "Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering Ð No Universal Constants." She has been active in the Delaware community; as former president and board member of the Chesapeake Bay Girl Scout Council, and currently on the Board of the Delaware Zoological Society. Deborah is a past board member of the YWCA of New Castle County, and the Delaware State Board of Pharmacy. She has served as a Province President for the five Eastern Pennsylvania collegiate chapters of her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha, and is a recipient of their Alumnae Certificate of Merit. In 1994, Deborah was named an outstanding Chemical Engineering Alumna by the Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering, and is a recipient of the 1986 Trailblazer Award from the Delaware Alliance of Professional Women. Deborah was born in suburban Chicago and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with Highest Distinction from Purdue University. She received a Winston Churchill Fellowship to attend Cambridge University in England, where she received a Certificate of Post Graduate Study in Chemical Engineering. She is a registered professional engineer in Delaware and is the engineer of record for DuPont.