Sameer Purao

Sameer Purao Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Sameer joined Celanese Corporation as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) in March of 2021. Sameer has more than 28 years of global IT leadership experience across several industries including Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction. Prior to joining Celanese, Sameer served as a Chief Information Officer at Austin Industries. In this role he successfully deployed various IT automations, built a robust cybersecurity framework and led several technology-enabled business transformations across three Austin companies. Before Austin Industries, Sameer worked in a variety of executive IT positions with large, global organizations at KBR, Sulzer & PCC leading digital transformation, mergers and acquisitions, organization change management and cybersecurity. Sameer has led teams of 400+ employees & contractors worldwide. Sameer is a recipient of the ORBIE CIO of the Year award in 2019 &