Richard C. Johnson, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of INTACE S.A., received an MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was employed as a chemical engineer in the U.S. by STAUFFER CHEMICAL and ROHM & HAAS before moving to Europe in 1967. He served in a management capacity with DREW CHEMICAL COMPANY in Rotterdam and Hamburg for 8 years, followed by five years with a subsidiary of MERCK & CO. in Brussels, before founding INTACE S.A. in 1980, in Paris, with his partner Geoffroy de VITRY D'AVAUCOURT.