Kevin Anderson is the Senior Technical Fellow for Brunswick Corporation and is responsible for materials engineering across the corporation. He was previously the leader of aircraft materials and physical metallurgy at Reynolds Aluminum Research. He conducted his Ph.D. research at Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign in 1990. Anderson is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Fellow of ASM International for his work on sustainable aluminum alloy design. Anderson is an inventor of high damage tolerant diecasting alloys that are made from 100% recycled aluminum, which saves 95% of the energy, and 94% of the CO2, compared to alloys that are made from primary aluminum. These alloys are registered with the Aluminum Association. Anderson has taught aluminum metallurgy on an international level since 1999 and has over 45 U.S. patents.

Anderson is also involved with numerous technical activities external to Brunswick corporation including Chairperson for the NAE Membership Policy Committee and past chairperson for the Committee on Membership, Member of the U.S. National Materials and Manufacturing Board, Member of the Aluminum Association Technical Committee on both Product Standards and the Subcommittee on Alloy and Temper Registration, Director at large and past chairperson for the Advanced Casting Research Consortium at the University of California - Irvine and The Ohio State University, Member and past chairperson of the Materials Innovation Committee of TMS, and Founding President and governance board member of the Fond du Lac STEM Academy which is a tuition free public charter school for grades 5 through 12.

In terms of hobbies, Anderson enjoys reading, woodworking, sporting clays shooting, and fishing for trout and salmon on Lake Michigan.