Bob is an experienced middle market private equity Board member, advisor, and C-Suite executive. He has over forty years of experience across the Packaging, Specialty Chemicals, and Building Products Distribution sectors.
Early in his career, critical expertise in Chemicals was gained with Emery Oleochemicals and BTL Specialty Resins. Key leadership roles in Packaging included Plant Manager of Mobil Chemical’s OPP Films facility (now Jindal Films) in Shawnee, OK, Site Director of Sealright / Huhtamaki’s paperboard converting plant in Fulton, NY and Senior Vice President, Mills for Graphic Packaging International based in Atlanta, GA.
Following his exit at GPI, Bob was the CEO of Platinum Equity owned Broadleaf Logistics, which was the successor to Weyerhaeuser’s Canadian wholesale residential Building Product distribution business with a sixteen facility national network.
Bob’s most recent CEO role, beginning in 2013, was leading a successful roll-up in the pressure sensitive label market. Bob steered Resource Label Group’s organic growth and helped orchestrate and integrate eleven acquisitions during a five year period that saw the RLG manufacturing footprint grow from three to fifteen sites.
He has a BASc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Bob lives in Franklin, TN with his wife and enjoys golfing and the local music scene.