President and Chief Executive Officer, The Lubrizol
Search every verified Rebecca Liebert interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Rebecca Liebert, President and CEO of The Lubrizol Corporation, has discussed her background in chemical engineering and her career path in interviews. She stated that she grew up on a farm in eastern Kentucky, where she was exposed to engineering through daily activities. Liebert earned a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky, a PhD from Carnegie Mellon, and an MBA from Northwestern University. She said that earlier in her career she looked up to high-ranking women as mentors, and that she prepared thoroughly for her roles to avoid others attributing her success to her gender. Liebert has spoken about Lubrizol's focus on sustainability and digital transformation. In a 2024 interview, she said that sustainability is a major trend and that treating software as a discretionary spend would leave companies behind. She has also commented on the future of transportation, stating that she believes there will be a continuum of energy systems including internal combustion, electric, hybrid, and hydrogen fuel cells. Liebert noted that Lubrizol grew during the pandemic by learning to maintain production of essential items.
“I worked at Honeywell for 12 years and Dave Cody was the the CEO and he wrote a great book called winning now winning later and that was really how we operated at Honeywell those years we would win Now by you know doing things like continuous Improvement lean Six Sigma you know General General good operations but we wo...”
“I think if you treat software as a discretionary spend you'll be behind in a few years maybe not today in the chemical industry maybe you can sort of keep up today by other Brute Force methods but in a few years if you're using software discretionally I think you'll be behind”
“I'm going to go more with the transformation maybe it's a little disruptive but you know it's it's sustainability and it's sustainability in this way we all need to do it and we're all doing it but the reporting on sustainability is getting very very complex and I think it's going to disrupt and transform how we have t...”
“EVs are here right and they're not going away but we really believe there are going to be sort of a Continuum of energy systems for transportation from internal combustion to electric vehicle pure electric vehicle to hybrid electric vehicle to probably hydrogen fuel cells in certain applications and and even combusted...”
“I think any industrial company that doesn't start to use a connected plant is going to be behind and we talked about yesterday the need for operational excellence the connected plant can truly drive that operational excellence.”
“if you just take the GCC region alone with currently available UOP technology there's about a quarter of a billion dollars of value to be unlocked if you add to that refining operations which I know many of you also operate there's a billion dollars of value to be unlocked in the GCC region alone.”
“I think some of the biggest challenges are candidly employees may think that this is going to take their job away they may see it as a threat if you have a software tool that can do all of these calculations that can you know asset assess the situation can determine how the process is running are you going to really ne...”
“As a technology provider obviously I mean I think the downturn and the oil prices impacted the projects that were going forward so we had a slowdown in demand for technology and event demand for our resources during that time so we took the opportunity to continue to press forward hard and development of new technologi...”
“We believe at Honeywell UOP that likely every new refinery will not be built unless there's an integrated petrochemical complex and even refineries that are currently existing today will be expanded or modified to have an integrated petrochemical complex so you can really maximize the value of the molecules of crude oi...”
“If you take the GCC region for the petrochemical sector alone it's about 250 million dollars but if you take refining plus petrochemical you're pushing a billion dollars just with the technologies we have to offer today if every plant in the region was operating at maximum performance.”
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