Gregory Freeman Email & Phone Number

York, PA, US

York, Pennsylvania, United States

TransGard, based in York, Pennsylvania, delivers patented substation protection solutions exclusively engineered to eliminate substation outages and other damage caused by both ground animals and birds. TransGard’s innovative fences and Laser Bird Defense systems successfully defend and protect thousands of locations in the U.S. and Canada.

York, Pennsylvania, United States

Full P&L leader for business unit, a division of Menasha Corporation, a privately held leader in packaging and fulfillment solutions. Responsible for defining and driving new growth strategies, developing the lead team to enable rapid growth and long-term succession, and building a culture of LEAN/CI thinking to standardize the core business processes for.

Reading, Pennsylvania Area

Full P&L leader for >$200,000,000 business unit, a division of JBPCo, a privately held leader in specialty vehicle bodies. A turn-around situation, responsible for building and developing the lead team, getting the business back on track, and driving new growth strategies. 2 manufacturing sites, and 10 upfitting locations with a primary customer footprint.

York, Pennsylvania Area

• Full P&L leader for $700,000,000 business unit, a division of privately held global leader in rigid plastic packaging. Responsible for defining and driving profitable growth strategies across a network of 22 operating.
• Completely rebuilt business leadership team; replaced 70% of staff at top three organizational levels to upgrade talent.
• Re-established solid customer relations; moved from 20% of business under 3+-year contracts to >90% by 2014.
• Improved costs by >40% by driving strong operational improvement focus; standard work, quality & CI.
• Implemented growth strategy, focused and reduced operating costs while driving 56% EBITDA margin improvement.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Held newly established position created to accelerate business growth by driving global corporate development team to deliver key external growth strategies for a $6B global diversified chemical company with leading.
• Identified, negotiated, and closed 2 acquisitions, each in the $10M – $100M range
• Rebuilt global team and developed premier function and center of excellence
• Defined new organization strategy, with focus on localization of talent in each global region

Cambridge, Massachusetts; Slough, UK; Brussels, Belgium

• 11 years of international business experience and increasing responsibility across 6 roles in Business Development and General Management for a $1B global leader in the manufacture of specialty chemicals and materials.
• Maintained growth results while market declined >25% in construction activity
• Championed new business developments delivering $85M in new growth
• Defined and drove creation of CoE to consolidate all order-to-cash activities from 11 locationsBusiness Director, Concrete Products, Europe, 2006
• Established vision, strategy, and structure for reorganized unit with aggressive 40% growth goal
• Staffed new marketing organization; achieved 40% growth goal in two years

Pottsville, Pennsylvania & Morristown, New Jersey

A leading producer of specialty plastic film substrates used for flexible food packaging, consumer, and industrial applications. Hired directly out of business school as a Business Analyst in the Allied-Signal Financial Management Program. Promoted five times in my six-year tenure, each promotion the result of generating significant results and.

M.B.A., Dual Major - Strategic Management & Finance

M.S.Che, Polymer Engineering

B.S., Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry