Greg Bunker (ChemEngr'95)
2025 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient
Greg Bunker is the senior global business director for Functional Polymers & High-Pressure Envelope, Packaging & Specialty Plastics. He leads the development and execution of the earnings growth strategy for Functional Polymers and the High-Pressure Envelope. This portfolio represents a broad range of performance products targeted at a variety of markets including infrastructure; power and telecommunications; and mobility, as well as flexible and medical packaging applications.
During his career at Dow, Bunker has worked in a variety of roles in the Dow Plastics businesses, including process automation, manufacturing, TS&D (technical service and development) and marketing, as well as business leadership across polyethylene, specialty plastics, and packaging adhesives. His most recent role was global business director for LDPE, Wire and Cable, and global asset director for High Pressure Copolymers (heritage DuPont Ethylene Copolymers).
Bunker came to Dow after graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering. He has also completed the Transition to General Management Program at INSEAD (2013).
He is holder of six U.S. patents, Six Sigma Black Belt certified, global co-leader of the Dow Inc. Veterans Network (VetNet), Michigan Home State Committee Chair for DowPAC, board chairman of the Greater Midland Tennis Center operating board, and is chair of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Materials Science and Engineering Program External Advisory Board.
As one of Bunker’s nominators for this award notes, “For several years, Greg has participated by giving course lectures in our undergraduate core (bio)kinetics classes that are taught to juniors. Despite his busy schedule, Greg makes time to talk with the students in these classes.” Additionally, he volunteered “to be on the inaugural advisory board for the Materials Science and Engineering Program. This board provides independent input to the program, mentors students, aids with outreach, and facilitates placement of graduates. Greg was selected to be the chair of this board, which I believe demonstrates his willingness to be highly engaged and the respect that he has from the other members of the board.”