Direct Pack Updates Leadership Roles

Craig Snedden has been named Chief Executive Officer. Snedden has served as President since founding Direct Pack in 2006 with a team of industry experts, with the goal of reimagining what a thermoforming company could offer to its valued partners, and has guided its rapid expansion from regional player to a leading North American supplier of fresh food packaging. Under Snedden's leadership the company has grown its North American manufacturing footprint to include 4 vertically integrated thermoforming facilities and added the operations to reclaim and reprocess PET thermoforms with the 2020 acquisition of Atmosphera Verde.

Patrick Nunan will now assume the role of President and Chief Commercial Officer of Direct Pack. Nunan was an outside adviser when he came to the company in 2009, he was named Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer in 2017. In coordination with the Direct Pack leadership team, he helped guide the company through its substantial expansion and has been responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company's commercial activities. With more than 30 years of industry experience, Nunan will continue to emphasize the growth of the core Direct Pack business which is providing innovative packaging solutions to leading brands in the food service, supermarket, food processor, and agricultural markets.

Juan Galvan, who founded and operated Atmosphera Verde, now known as Direct Pack Recycling, has been named President of the division. Galvan has been a key figure in Direct Pack's installation of over $40 million in manufacturing and recycling assets in Central and Northern Mexico, and has successfully launched the company's first two reclaiming and reprocessing plants. Galvan will continue to optimize operations of the existing Direct Pack Recycling facilities in Mexico, he will lead the upcoming launch of a new, state-of-the-art PET reprocessing facility in Rockingham, NC, while also focusing on innovations around Direct Pack's leadership in fully circular thermoformed PET food packaging.