CMC Materials, Inc. announced the election of Dr. Anne K. Roby to the Company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Roby, 56, most recently served as an Executive Vice President and Member of the Management Committee of Lindeplc.  At Linde, Dr. Roby was responsible for the entity’s Praxair Surface Technologies, Electronic Materials and Helium/Rare Gases businesses, which accounted for annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion.  In addition, she led the company’s global functions, including safety, health and environment, sustainability, quality, strategic sales, operations excellence, procurement, digitalization, and research and development.  She also was an executive champion of the combined company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Her tenure at Linde capped a more than 25 year career at Praxair prior to the merger, culminating in her serving as a Senior Vice President and Member of the Office of the Chairman from 2014 to 2017, with largely the same responsibilities as at Linde, in addition to global engineering, supply system development and capital project execution.  Prior to this, she was the President, Praxair Asia and Electronics, based in Shanghai, China, for four years. Dr. Roby is the Vice Chair of the Board of the Nuvance Health Network, and is a Trustee of Villanova University.