Thomas J. Lange (Tom)

Director

Corporate R&D

Engineering PRISM Laureate

Procter & Gamble

Cincinnati, Ohio

Tom Lange (BSChE from the University of Missouri ’78) joined Procter & Gamble in May 1978, as a Product Technical Engineer. Tom has spent his 27 year P&G career modeling and simulating product and production systems... from how the aerodynamics of a peanut affect roasting, to how baby sizes affect the probability of a urine leak in a diaper.

He was recognized in 1994 with a PRISM award, P&G’s highest technical recognition for Engineering. Tom was appointed Associate Director in 1998, becoming the first department head of the Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Department for Corporate Engineering. In August, 2001 he was appointed head of P&G’s CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) Organization. In September 2004, he was appointed Director of Modeling & Simulation for P&G in Corporate R&D, including CAE and Computational Chemistry Efforts.