CMI names senior vice president of sustainability

The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), Washington, has promoted Scott Breen to senior vice president of sustainability, effective Jan. 2, 2024. Breen currently leads the association’s sustainability and recycling efforts.

Upon his promotion, Breen will lead the industry’s sustainability policy, infrastructure and communications efforts as its senior vice president.

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Breen started with CMI in July 2019, and the organization says he has elevated its vision for the metal can to be recognized as the superior sustainable package. The organization adds that Breen has facilitated several initiatives to advance the metal can industry’s sustainability performance.

“Scott has elevated the metal can industry’s sustainability profile throughout the value chain,” says CMI Chairman Thomas Fischer, Crown Holdings vice president of investor relations and corporate affairs. “This promotion will increase the significant contribution he makes to our industry and our continued commitment to solidify the metal can as the superior sustainable package.”

CMI President Robert Budway says, “Scott effectively articulates how the attributes of the metal can make it the sustainable solution. His extensive knowledge about sustainability and the circular economy, along with his analytic ability and facilitation prowess, create new energy to effectively fortify the sustainability narrative and further communicate the metal can’s sustainability superiority.”

Prior to joining CMI, Breen was the associate manager of the sustainability and circular economy program at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. He also is the creator and co-host of the Sustainability Defined podcast. Breen began his career as an attorney-advisor at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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“It is an honor to lead the sustainability program within the metal can industry and tell the story about the most sustainable package,” Breen says. “This position allows me to further the industry’s sustainability profile by facilitating initiatives and actions that drive continued advances in the metal package’s sustainability profile.”

Breen graduated magna cum laude from his undergraduate program, where he received a bachelor’s degree in political economy from Georgetown University, and his joint graduate program, a Juris Doctor and Master of Public Affairs and Social Entrepreneurship Certificate from Indiana University.