Joel Rathbun

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SVP of M&A
Avient (formerly PolyOne Corp)

Joel was Senior Vice President at Moelis & Company, and Executive Director at CIBC World Markets. Joel Rathbun joined Avient in 2011. During that time, he expanded and strengthened the company's Specialty platform through his expertise and leadership including the acquisitions of ColorMatrix and Glasforms.  He also led the efforts to sell the company's non-core vinyl dispersion, blending and suspension resin assets in 2013. He has served as general manager of PolyOne's Specialty Engineered Materials business in North America.  In this capacity, he delivered record operating income and profitability, while generating clear, sustainable momentum around cross-business unit and regional collaboration.

Joel has a Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering from Queen's University in 1995 and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998.

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