Georgia-Pacific names new CEO

Georgia-Pacific announced this week that President and CEO Christian Fischer is retiring at the end of October after a more than 30-year career with the Atlanta-based packaging company.

Mark Luetters, who currently is executive vice president of Koch Inc., Wichita, Kansas, and oversees several Koch companies, including Georgia-Pacific, will continue in that role while serving as Georgia-Pacific president and CEO.

Luetters joined Koch in 1989 and Georgia-Pacific in 2006 and, among other roles, was executive vice president of Georgia-Pacific building products for nine years prior to returning to a role in another Koch company in 2018.

Fisher joined Georgia-Pacific in 1989 and has held numerous leadership roles before being named president and CEO in 2017.

“I want to thank Christian for his 40 years of service in the forest products industry and his 35 years of significant contribution to Georgia-Pacific,” Luetters says. “We all wish Christian the very best following his retirement.

“I look forward to working collaboratively with the GP team on our key initiatives and, ultimately naming a new, long-term GP president and CEO at some point within calendar year 2026.”