CEO has led group for 10 years and among highest-paid association executives; recruitment firm retained in search for successor Dooley Cal Dooley will retire as CEO of the $122 million-revenue American Chemistry Council at the end of 2018 after leading the chemical and plastics manufacturing industry group for a decade. ACC announced Dooley's upcoming retirement April 26, saying the CEO would step down once his current contract ends. Dooley was appointed head of the association at the height of the financial crisis in 2008, but during his tenure the chemical industry has blossomed due to the boom in natural gas production and what the CEO called "sound policy approaches."… Read More