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Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

Chicago

As CEO, I led a fantastic team that ran one of the leading absorbent pad and foam tray companies in the North America. Novipax operates five manufacturing facilities serving food processors, supermarkets, and food packaging distributors around the world.

Greater Chicago Area

COVERIS, the sixth largest global plastic packaging company in the world, is an established leader in the development, manufacture, and sourcing of flexible and rigid plastic and paper packaging, as well as coatings solutions for various consumer and industrial end-use markets. With aggregate revenues of approximately US$3.0B, the company manages 64 plants.

Greater Chicago Area

Atlas Holdings LLC is a private equity firm with a portfolio of market-leading companies with over 10,000 employees that operate from more than 100 facilities throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia generating over $3 billion annually. I currently advise Atlas on potential acquisitions within the global metals and packaging industries.

Lake Forest, IL

The largest global supplier of filtration products to the automotive, commercial transportation and marine industries. The company was formed in November 2011 by merging two recently acquired Rank entities: Champion Laboratories, a leading manufacturer of private label oil and air filters, and FRAM, producer of the number one retail brand in North America..

After the acquisition of Pactiv by the Rank Group in mid-2010, led the integration of both Reynolds Food Packaging and PWP, a leading producer of plastic disposable packaging, into Pactiv Food Packaging. Beginning January 2011, led Pactiv Food and Specialty Packaging, a newly formed $550 million growth business, offering a wide range of innovative products.

Drove the divestiture of non-core segments within the flexible packaging business, and, in parallel, led a turn-around of the underperforming foodservice packaging group. Successfully created a lean, $575 million business that doubled EBITDA in the first year and delivered year-over-year earnings growth in the subsequent two years.Established Reynolds as.

Beijing, China

Developed and executed a growth strategy for China that increased the size of Alcoa’s manufacturing position in the region from less than $60 million in sales in 2005 to over $500 million in 2008 as a result of acquisition, new construction, and market repositioning. Provided leadership to over 2,500 people across four manufacturing facilities in China, as.

Chicago, IL

Led the company’s largest marketing and sales organization at a time when this $2.2 billion business was losing considerable market share and was struggling to secure critical, long-term aerospace and defense contracts. Instituted a rapid change management process that created a high performance commercial team that delivered essential, multi-year supply.

Knoxville, TN

Drove the commercial repositioning of Alcoa’s global beverage can business, built upon aggressive price and market share increases, which generated $30 million in net income improvement in the first year, and close to $50 million in the subsequent two years. Successfully negotiated with Nestle, Mars, and Heinz to convert their canned pet food business from.

Knoxville, TN & Coral Gables, FL

Led a $350 million International Selling Company responsible for the purchase and resale of aluminum products to customers located in Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, and the Middle East.

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