PPG Appoints McGarry
Chief Operating Officer
PPG Industries has appointed Michael
H. McGarry, currently executive vice
president, to chief operating officer of
the company.
McGarry will
have executive oversight responsibility for all of PPG’s
strategic business
units and operating
regions and for the
information technology (IT), environment, health and
safety (EH&S) and
purchasing functions. He will remain based at PPG’s
global headquarters in Pittsburgh and
will continue to report to chairman and
CEO Charles E. Bunch.
During his 33 years with PPG,
McGarry has served in a variety of
key business and functional leadership
roles in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In
addition, he helped lead several strategic actions that have transformed
PPG’s business portfolio, most notably the acquisition of SigmaKalon; the
separation of PPG’s former commodity chemicals business; the acquisition of AkzoNobel’s North American
architectural coatings business; and
most recently, the announced agreement to acquire Consorcio Comex,
S.A. de C.V.
McGarry joined PPG in 1981 as an
engineer at the company’s Lake Charles,
Louisiana chemicals complex. He then
progressed through a series of management assignments of increasing responsibility, including market development
manager, silica products; operations
manager, silicas, Thailand; business
manager, TESLIN sheet; and product
manager in the derivatives, chlorine, liquid and dry caustic soda businesses.
He was named general manager,
fine chemicals, in 2000, and vice pres-
ident, chlor-alkali and derivatives, in
2004. McGarry was elected vice presi-
dent, coatings, Europe, and managing
director, PPG Europe, in 2006, and se-
nior vice president, commodity chemi-
cals, in 2008.
He was named executive vice president in September 2012. In this role,
his leadership responsibilities have
included the automotive refinish,
aerospace, global architectural and
protective and marine coatings businesses, as well as the Europe, Middle
East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia/
Pacific regions, and the EH&S and IT
functions.
Sherwin-Williams Elects
New Director
Sherwin-Williams
Company’s Board
of Directors has
elected Matthew
Thornton III to its
Board of Directors.
Thornton is senior vice president,
U.S. Operations,
FedEx Express, the
world’s largest express transportation company and a
subsidiary of FedEx Corporation.
Thornton was also appointed to the
Audit Committee of Sherwin-Williams’
Board. Sherwin-Williams’ Board now
consists of ten members, including nine
independent directors.
Thornton began his career with
Federal Express in 1978 as a package
handler while a college student at the
University of Memphis. He held a variety of management positions with
Federal Express before being named
vice president – Regional Operations
(Central Region) in 1998. He was promoted to senior vice president – Air,
Ground and Freight Services in 2004
before being named senior vice president, U.S. Operations, FedEx Express
in 2006.
Alberdingk Boley Appoints
New Sales Representative
Alberdingk Boley Inc, a leading manufacturer of water-based resins for the
paint and coatings
industry, has named
Andrew Starling
South East sales
representative.
Starling has more
than 20 years expe-
rience in the paint
and coatings indus-
try. He has previ-
ously worked for
Tego – Performance Additives, Evonik
as a South East sales manager and also
worked at Henkel for eight years as a
Mid-West and South East sales and dis-
tribution manager
He is taking over the territory for Steve
Cooper who is retiring from Alberdingk
Boley and reporting directly to Yasmin
Sayed-Sweet, vice president of sales and
marketing at Alberdingk-Boley.
Coatings for Industry
Names Peterson Industrial
Sales Manager
Coatings for Industry (CFI), a direct-to-contractor supplier of industrial coating
products, has hired flooring industry veteran Jim Peterson as its industrial sales
manager. In this role, Peterson will be in
charge of business development and will
service existing customers across CFI’s
various product categories.
Peterson previously served as president of Criterion Flooring Systems, an
industrial floor coatings company in
Elkridge, Maryland specializing in installing epoxy and urethane flooring
in auto service centers and firehouses,
Criterion Flooring Systems has been
a longtime CFI customer. Prior to his
17 years with Criterion, Peterson was
a production supervisor and research
and development engineer for Heraues
Electro-Nite Co. in Philadelphia. CW
Michael H. McGarry
Matthew Thornton III
Andrew Starling
