Scholle IPN CEO and leadership

Senior business leader with significant US and international experience and a history of strategic and operational successes in sales, marketing, business strategy and P&L ownership.Specialties: Demonstrated skills in strategic planning, negotiation, organizational design, people leadership, communication, brand management, new product introduction, technology marketing, and profit/loss responsibility.

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER with extensive success in high level finance, accounting and operations leadership positions in privately and publicly held companies. Strong focus on accounting and finance operations, process redesign and implementation, budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting for multiple business units within parent organizations. Consistently deliver significant short and long term cost savings by identifying risks, decreasing expenses and proactively creating systems and best practices that result in enhanced organizational efficiency, performance, productivity and increased enterprise value. Manage multi-million dollar budgets, P&Ls and reduce excess expenditures creating significant operational savings and increasing enterprise value.

EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS - SCHOLLE IPN CORPORATION

*Member of a three-person executive leadership team including CEO and General Counsel that significantly increased global EBITDA through contract renegotiations, cost reductions, material substitutions, 80/20 analysis and lean and mini business initiatives. Significantly increased EBITDA margin by moving company from bottom quartile to top quartile for flexible packaging companies, and improved ROCE performance to top decile performance.

*Divested non-core assets and businesses, simplifying administration and reporting and greatly improving liquidity and deleveraging company

*De-risked defined benefit pension plan resulting in notable tax savings, annual pension expense savings to the Corporation and annual expense savings to the plan.