Creel Leaves Tyco's Earth Tech For Role As R&D Entrepreneur
Diane C. Creel, one of the first woman CEOs of a major engineering firm, is leaving Earth Tech to head up an industrial waste treatment technology startup firm in Rochester, N.Y.
Creel says the move will return her to her entrepreneurial roots, but others say it is a consequence of changes in Long Beach, Calif.-based Earth Tech's management, caused by a scandal involving its parent, Tyco International Ltd., Exeter, N.H. It bought Earth Tech in 1996.