Deb spent the last five years as the president of her own human resources consultant firm specializing in the areas of talent management, leadership systems and leadership coaching. Deb has gained broad respect from senior business leadership, HR colleagues and rising talent for her advice and coaching on talent strategy, team effectiveness and people–related issues. Before consulting, Deb enjoyed a 17-year career at Rohm and Haas Company (now part of Dow Chemical Company). She spent the majority of her time at Rohm and Haas in senior human resources roles, including the senior human resources director for the company’s largest business group. As a key member of the leadership team, Deb drove significant changes in talent development processes which led to corporate-wide “best practices” in the areas of talent identification, assessment, movement, succession planning, development and reward processes. In her last role, Deb served as the leader of the Rohm and Haas Talent Management Center of Expertise — a centralized role leading and driving the company’s global talent development processes. Prior to her HR roles, Deb held both marketing and sales management positions at Rohm and Haas and Proctor and Gamble. Specialties:--Strong business and strategic mindset --Ability to translate business needs into progressive people, organizational and cultural solutions --Adept at identifying and assessing talent and leadership potential --Highly skilled in coaching, mentoring and delivering feedback to senior leaders and professionals --Coaching expertise in building accountability, fostering employee engagement, gaining broad organizational influence, leveraging relationships, and creating executive presence

Vice-President, Human Resources and Talent Development @ Debra joined Renmatix to oversee talent acquisition and development. Renmatix is entirely dependent on the brilliance and genius insights of our science, strategy, and engineering experts. And to date, we’ve been very successful in attracting the very best and brightest to our game-changing technology opportunity. To scale our operations globally, we’re thrilled to have a high-energy resource leader who is well known for driving business performance in both commercial and human resource roles. She is also tasked with ensuring the policies and reward systems at Renmatix are competitive with other world-class technology organizations – and is proactively working to shape and energize our innovative and progressive culture. From April 2011 to Present (4 years 7 months) Owner @ From July 2006 to March 2011 (4 years 9 months) Global Director, Leadership and Talent @ From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Global Human Resources Director, Chemicals Business Group @ From 2001 to 2005 (4 years) Global Human Resources Director, Performance Polymers Business Group @ From 1996 to 2001 (5 years) Senior Consultant, Leadership and Organization Effectiveness @ From 1994 to 1996 (2 years) Market Mananger, Adhesives Business Unit @ From 1992 to 1994 (2 years) Market Manager, Construction Products Business Unit @ From 1989 to 1992 (3 years) District Sales Manager, Food Division @ From 1986 to 1987 (1 year) District Field Representative, Food Division @ From 1985 to 1985 (less than a year) Sales Representative, Food Division @ From 1984 to 1985 (1 year)

M.B.A., General Management @ Harvard Business School From 1987 to 1989 B.A., Cum laude, Politics @ Princeton University From 1980 to 1984 Debra Kurucz is skilled in: Talent Management, Leadership Development, Leadership, Employee Engagement, Strategy, Coaching, Change Management, Succession Planning, Cross-functional Team..., Start-ups, Organizational..., Strategic Planning, Talent Acquisition, Organizational..., Consulting, Human Resources, Organizational Design, Process Improvement, Management, Performance Management, Executive Coaching, Business Strategy, Team Building, Executive Management, Workforce Planning, Employee Relations, Business Process..., Executive Relationship, Leveraging Relationships, Culture Change, Management Consulting, Team Leadership, Personnel Management, Strategic Thinking