R. Tony Tripeny
R. Tony Tripeny has served as Chair of Origin’s board of directors since March 2024, and has served as a member of Origin’s board of directors beginning May 1, 2023. Previously from May 1, 2023 through March 1, 2024, Mr. Tripeny also served as Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Tripeny brings over three decades of significant operational, strategy, and M&A experience, extensive knowledge of the manufacturing, technology, and materials science industries, and a background in international corporate finance. Since 2022, he has served as a director at Mesa Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacturing of life science tools and critical quality control solutions. Mr. Tripeny has also served the board of IperionX Ltd., a titanium metal and critical materials company, since March 2025. During his career with Corning, Incorporated, a global leading innovator in materials science, Mr. Tripeny held various, progressive leadership roles in the areas of corporate accounting and finance, including Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer from September 2015 to February 2022 and Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer from April 2009 to August 2015. He also served on the board of Hardinge Inc., a multi-national machine tool builder, from February 2012 to May 2018 and as a Financial Analyst for GKN Automotive Inc., an automotive technology company, from 1981 to 1985. Mr. Tripeny holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and is a member of the Financial Executives Institute and the Institute of Management Accounting.