MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV), headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, and Rock-Tenn Co., Norcross, Georgia, have selected an executive team to lead the combined company following their merger.
Steve Voorhees, CEO of RockTenn, will serve as the new company’s CEO, and John Luke, chairman and CEO of MWV, will be nonexecutive chairman of the merged company’s board.
“The announcement of our executive leadership team marks an important milestone in the merging of our companies,” says Voorhees. “I am confident that this is the right team with the right expertise to execute our core strategies to succeed in paper and packaging markets and to create significant value for our shareholders.”
“Together, MWV and RockTenn are creating the premier global packaging company, unrivaled in terms of capabilities, customers and reach,” says Luke. “We have drawn from the best talent of each company to build a leadership team that is unmatched in the industry, with the commercial, operational and financial expertise to drive our business forward and generate substantial shareholder value.”
The executive leadership team includes:
- Bob Beckler, currently executive vice president and president of packaging at MWV, will become president of packaging solutions.
- Nina Butler, currently senior vice president and senior environmental council for RockTenn, will become chief sustainability officer.
- Ward Dickson, currently executive vice president and chief financial officer for RockTenn, will become chief financial officer.
- Pete Durette, currently MWV senior vice president of strategy and leader of its home, health and beauty segment, will become chief strategy officer.
- Jennifer Graham-Johnson, currently RockTenn executive vice president of human resources, will become chief human resources officer.
- Bob McIntosh, currently executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for RockTenn, will become general counsel.
- Jim Porter, currently president of RockTenn’s paper solutions divisions, where he leads the company’s containerboard, paperboard and pulp mills and the forest resources organization, recycling business and sales of containerboard, paperboard, recycled fiber and pulp president, will keep the same title in the newly formed company.
- Linda Schreiner, currently MWV senior vice president, human resources, communications and the MWV Foundation, will become chief integration officer.
Ed Rose, president of specialty chemicals, and Ken Seeger, president of community development and land management, will continue in their current leadership roles and report to Voorhees.