Marie Dillon's sales career began in durable medical equipment, where she worked with "children and adults with various physical challenges and the courage they showed."
After a decade in medical sales, she changed industries and took a position in plastic distribution sales for General Polymers/Ashland Distribution Co. In her time at Ashland, she "excelled in sales, corporate accounts and sales management," which paved the way for numerous opportunities she has embraced at Amco Polymers.
Dillon is now the regional commercial director at Bamberger Amco Polymers, where she oversees strategic planning, team leadership and account management to drive sales success and seller motivation and satisfaction.
"Understanding sustainability in plastics is crucial as plastics play an integral part in life," she said about the emerging technology/market in which she currently is most interested. "The production, usage and disposal has a significant influence on the future quality of our lives and our world."
Asked the best advice she has ever received, Dillon said: "Do not allow success to make you complacent. Complacency is your enemy. Change is a life."
Dillon earned a bachelor's degree in management from California State University, Northridge. She said she is grateful for her first unofficial mentor when she was an intern.
"I attribute much of my professional success to her invaluable advice and guidance on how to be a 'professional woman in a man's world.' She snapped my career and my personal development," Dillon said.
"The plastics industry is still a male-dominated industry where a woman must prove her skills and challenge the norm," she added. "I leverage my expertise, leadership skills and my intuition to drive success and inspire change."