Dr. Silverman has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operations & Supply Chain Officer at Axalta since January 2022. He leads Operations and Supply Chain, which includes manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, engineering, quality, operational excellence, and environmental, health & safety (EHS). Previously, Dr. Silverman was an external advisor with Bain & Company lending his expertise to Bain consultants and clients across operations, supply chain, manufacturing, EHS, and quality. Before Bain & Company, he served as the SVP of Global Operations, Quality & EHS for Ashland Global Holdings, Inc., a global chemical specialty company operating in 100+ countries and spent 23 years with Merck & Co. in various leadership roles within Global EHS, Project Engineering, and Research & Development. Dr. Silverman is an Executive Committee member and past Chair of the American Chemistry Council’s TRANSCAER® program and a member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs Hazardous Materials Committee. He earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Chemistry from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He also holds a Master of Public Health and a B.A. in Microbiology from Rutgers University.