Pat Brant

Pat worked for ExxonMobil Chemical Company for 37 years till his retirement in 2018. During that time, he held a variety of management and technical positions. Pat was Chief Scientist, Global R&D, and then Chief Polymer Scientific Advisor, from 2000-2018. Pat’s management, team leader, and technical efforts were largely focused on design, scale-up and commercialization of new polyolefins and their derivatives for a variety of applications including automotive, stretch films, uni- and biaxially oriented polyethylene films, separator membrane films for lithium-ion batteries (LIB), food packaging, elastomers, engine oil additives, and adhesives. A key enabler behind many of the application efforts was research driving commercialization of metallocene catalysis and supportation of such catalysts for operation in world scale reactors. From 2006-2010, based in part on his technical work on LIB membrane designs, Pat represented ExxonMobil Corporation through print and television advertise