** Shares of specialty chemicals maker Chemours Co CC.N rise ~10% to $18.57

** Co appoints Alphabet's GOOGL.O Google executive Joseph Kava to its board of directors

** Kava currently serves as Vice President of Data Centers at Google

** Many of CC's products are critical to AI and high-performance computing, most notably in data center cooling, where Kava has tremendous knowledge and experience, Chemours CEO Denise Dignam says

** Chemours' stock fell 46.4% in 2024

(Reporting by Vallari Srivastava in Bengaluru)

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