Item 8.01 - Other Events
On January 14, 2022, the Board of Directors of FutureFuel Corp. (the "Company")
appointed Charles W. Lyon as its Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning.
Mr. Lyon was previously hired as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning
at FutureFuel Chemical Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, on
September 7, 2021. In his new capacity, Mr. Lyon will lead the Company in sales,
marketing, and technology and develop and implement a business growth strategy
for custom chemicals, specialty chemicals, and biodiesel products. Mr. Lyon is a
global business executive with over 25 years of international business
experience in over 30 countries in the industrial chemical and specialty
chemical industries. He has extensive experience in establishing and growing
specialty chemicals businesses, especially in the Americas and Asia Pacific
regions.
Prior to joining FutureFuel Chemical Company, Mr. Lyon was employed by Prefere
Melamines, a unit of Prefere Resins, where he was Business Director for the
Americas and Asia. Prior to Prefere, and for fifteen years, he was Business
Director, Americas and Asia, for INEOS Melamines, a unit of INEOS. There, he was
highly engaged in leading business growth in Asia and established the business's
first commercial entity in Singapore. He also served as Director at INEOS
Melamines, and established the business's first manufacturing capability in the
region with a strategic alliance in Indonesia. Before that, Mr. Lyon served as a
regional and global business manager for the Specialty Resins business of UCB
and Solutia Inc., where he was responsible for implementing growth strategies
for products serving the automotive OEM and other high-performance coatings
markets. Mr. Lyon started his career with Monsanto Company, and held management
positions in engineering, manufacturing, and global product management serving
numerous specialty market segments including detergents, tire and rubber
chemicals, pharma intermediates, and agricultural products.
Mr. Lyon received a BS in Chemical Engineering and a MS in Engineering
Management, both from the University of Missouri in Rolla (now Missouri
University of Science and Technology).
On January 20, 2022, the Company issued a press release regarding the
appointment of Mr. Lyon, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01 - Financial Statements and Exhibits
Exhibits.
99.1 Press Release dated January 20, 2022
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL
document)
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