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Sonoco CEO and leadership

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Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Robert Howard Coker is the Sonoco's CEO. Sonoco has 21,000 employees, of which 39 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Sonoco executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
  • 62% of the management team is White.
  • 9% of Sonoco management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Robert Howard Coker

President and CEO

Robert Howard Coker's LinkedIn

R. Howard Coker is President and CEO of Sonoco. In this role, Coker has global leadership, sales and operating responsibility for all of the Company’s diversified consumer, industrial and protective packaging businesses.

James Coker

Founder

Ed Harrington

Board Member

Glenn Jordan

Board Member

Laura Buen Abad

Board Member

Peter Görlitz

Sustainability Manager

Scott Byrne

Board Member

John M. Florence Jr

Corporate Vice President, General Counsel

John R. Haley

Board Member

Richard Johnson

VP, CIO

Richard Johnson's LinkedIn

Senior-level business and information technology executive. Successful track record of leading organizational change across globally diverse technology organizations as well as driving complex, global business transformations including digital transformations, business restructuring, and new business model developments. Proven experience in managing enterprise technology organizations to create focus on value-generating technology solutions as well as leading cross-functional business transformations.Core Competencies• IT Strategy• IT/Business Alignment• Business Transformation through IT-enablement• Digital Transformation• SG&A Reengineering• Operations and Supply Chain• International Leadership• Global ERP

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James Coker

Founder

Sonoco board members

Name & TitleBio
Robert Howard Coker

President and CEO

Robert Howard Coker's LinkedIn

R. Howard Coker is President and CEO of Sonoco. In this role, Coker has global leadership, sales and operating responsibility for all of the Company’s diversified consumer, industrial and protective packaging businesses.

Ed Harrington

Board Member

Glenn Jordan

Board Member

Laura Buen Abad

Board Member

Scott Byrne

Board Member

John R. Haley

Board Member

Pamela Lewis Davies

Board Member

Richard G. Kyle

Board Member

Blythe J. McGarvie

Board Member

Eleni Istavridis

Board Member

Sonoco leadership demographics

Sonoco gender distribution in management team

  • The Sonoco executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
  • Sonoco is 30% female and 70% male company-wide.
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Male
79%
Company-wide: 70%
Female
Female
21%
Company-wide: 30%

Sonoco executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Sonoco executive officers is White.
  • 62% of the management team is White.
  • 13% of Sonoco's management is Asian.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 65% of employees are White.
  • 14% of employees are Black or African American.
  • 12% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
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Updated November 18, 2022

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