MacKenzie is a 41 year old Canadian national, and has had 13 years experience with Amcor working in all the major operating divisions including PET, flexibles, tobacco packaging and closures. He has managed businesses across the Americas, Europe, Australasia and Asia and has lived in North America, Australia and Europe. He is currently the group managing director of the Amcor Rentsch and Closures business, based in Switzerland.
Chris Roberts, Amcor’s executive chairman says, “Ken MacKenzie is a world class executive who fulfils all the key criteria the Board had established. He has had experience across all our major business segments and understands the packaging industry intimately. He has had management experience in Europe, Australasia, the Americas and Asia and has an excellent track record in improving earnings and returns in these businesses.
“The selection of the new Managing Director involved a global search and the Amcor Board was pleased with the quality of the external candidates, however it transpired that they could not match Ken MacKenzie as the internal benchmark.”
Amcor’s managing director elect Ken MacKenzie, says: “I am extremely enthusiastic about the opportunity to lead Amcor in this next stage of its development. Over the past five years, Amcor has divested its non-core paper based activities and acquired substantial global positions in its chosen market segments. With this platform established, it is now appropriate to move from the previous stage of acquisitions and integration to focus on the execution of the key fundamentals that drive excellence in the packaging industry.
MacKenzie continues, “I look forward to working with my fellow Amcor colleagues to create an organisation that is a global packaging leader in terms of product innovation and commercial and operational excellence, that will deliver continuous improvement in earnings and returns for our shareholders.”
Roberts says: “The Board has every confidence that Ken Mackenzie will be an excellent managing director through the next stage of the company’s development.”
MacKenzie, who is multilingual and currently living in Zurich, Switzerland, will be relocating to Melbourne with his wife and family over the coming months.
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