Veritiv CEO and leadership

Growth-oriented, motivating and inspiring senior executive with extensive experience in building exceptional customer-facing cultures. I have led numerous long range strategic plans focused on profitable growth, and have achieved greater-than-market growth over the last 15 years.

I focus on deep market understanding and marketing strategy, sales force effectiveness through disciplined sales processes, and an engineered customer experience designed to drive business results and customer delight.

Significant international experience both in leading international teams as well as achieving growth through strategic mergers and acquisitions.

A sitting public company CFO with a dozen years of \'in the chair\' experience including during the turbulent recession of 2009/10 and in two tough industries (paper distribution and greeting cards). Path to the public company CFO chair through the banking/treasury route. Led investor relations efforts at Veritiv Corporation, American Greetings and General Cable.

Karen Renner serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Veritiv. In this role, she is responsible for the company’s Information Technology (IT) strategy and policies supporting Veritiv’s operations and staff.

Prior to joining Veritiv in November 2020, Karen was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for CommScope, Inc., a global network infrastructure provider. She was responsible for IT, information security and business transformation.

Karen also held CIO positions at aerospace-defense supplier Thales, aluminum producer Novelis, and she spent more than 20 years at General Electric, where she led IT for the company’s security and digital energy businesses.

For more than five years, Karen has been a member of the Board of Lenbrook, a not-for-profit senior community in Atlanta, GA. She currently serves on the Finance Committee and the Development Committee.

Karen received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Auburn University, and an MBA from Georgia State University.

Growth-oriented, motivating and inspiring senior executive with extensive experience in building exceptional customer-facing cultures. I have led numerous long range strategic plans focused on profitable growth, and have achieved greater-than-market growth over the last 15 years.

I focus on deep market understanding and marketing strategy, sales force effectiveness through disciplined sales processes, and an engineered customer experience designed to drive business results and customer delight.

Significant international experience both in leading international teams as well as achieving growth through strategic mergers and acquisitions.