As Executive Vice President, Advanced Technologies Group & Corporate Liaison for Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. (MATHESON), Rick Kowey currently has business leadership responsibility for advanced technologies and innovations transferred from MATHESON’s parent company, Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC), into global markets.  As Corporate Liaison, he also contributes to MATHESON and TNSC global business expansion goals through strategic marketing, joint venture, and merger/acquisition initiatives.

With nearly thirty-five years of total experience in the industrial and specialty gas industry, Rick Kowey has served in multiple senior general management, sales leadership, and corporate marketing positions for MATHESON and previously for Scott Specialty Gases, Inc.  He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Ursinus College and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Drexel University.