Berry Global Group, Inc., has announced that Paula A. Sneed has been elected by the company’s shareowners to its Board of Directors. Berry Global Group, Inc., headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative nonwoven, flexible, and rigid products used every day within consumer and industrial end markets.

Sneed is the chairperson and CEO of Phelps Prescott Group LLC (PPG), a strategy and management consultancy she cofounded in 2007. Sneed is a director of Charles Schwab Corporation, TE Connectivity Ltd., The Family Independence Initiative, Turnaround For Children, the Surge Institute, and New Schools Venture Fund.

She is a former director of Hercules Inc., Airgas Inc., Communispace Inc., American Marketing Association, Right To Play, and Teach For America national and Chicago regional boards. She is also a former trustee of Simmons College and Illinois Institute of Technology. Sneed earned a BA from Simmons College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She received an honorary doctorate degree in Business Administration from Johnson and Wales University.

Tom Salmon, chairman and CEO of Berry said, “On behalf of Berry and its directors, I would like to welcome Paula to our Board. Paula’s marketing and operating experience will further enhance our Board’s existing business acumen, while bringing additional insights and perspectives in consumer packaging.” (GK)