Steve Voorhees, CEO of WestRock, Norcross, Georgia, has been named the Association of Suppliers to the Paper Industry (ASPI) Customer Executive of the Year for 2016. Voorhees is scheduled to accept his award during the ASPI 2016 Spring Meeting, which will be Feb. 24-26, 2016, in Miami.
WestRock’s 41,000 team members support customers around the world from about 268 operating and business locations spanning North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
“Steve Voorhees has been a leader in the paper and packaging industry for many years and has helped lead the successful formation of WestRock following a merger last summer,” says ASPI President Mike Gray, area senior vice president of sales and paper business North America for Valmet. “Steve’s aspiration for WestRock is to become an unrivaled partner for companies in the paper and packaging industry, and that includes strong relationships with all of their suppliers. We look forward to recognizing his contributions to the industry and hearing from him at our Spring Meeting in Miami.”
Previously, Voorhees was chief executive officer of RockTenn. Prior to his appointment as CEO of RockTenn, he served in various executive leadership roles, including president and chief operating officer; executive vice president and chief financial officer; and chief administrative officer. Before joining RockTenn, he was in operations and executive roles at Sonat Inc., a diversified energy company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
ASPI says the Customer Executive of the Year Award is presented annually “to a customer executive who has worked diligently within his company, and with his company’s suppliers, to dramatically increase the benefits to his company of its supplied goods and services.” Nominations are accepted from ASPI member companies, with the ASPI board of directors voting on submitted nominations.
ASPI is an association of companies that supply products and services to the pulp, paper and board industry.
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