Sonoco Announced Appointment of New CFO

Dillard will continue to report to Howard Coker, President and Chief Executive Officer.

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Sonoco announced that Rob Dillard was named as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective July 1, 2022. Dillard has been most recently serving as Chief Strategy Officer in the company. He succeeds Julie Albrecht, who had earlier decided to leave the company effective June 30, 2022.

He will be responsible for the company’s global finance functions including audit, controllership, financial reporting, tax, treasury, risk management and insurance, financial planning and analysis, apart from strategy and corporate development. Dillard will continue to report to Howard Coker, President and Chief Executive Officer.

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Dillard joined the company in 2018 and has been leading the company’s strategy and mergers and acquisitions activities since then. He led the recent $1.35 billion acquisition of Ball Metalpack- the largest acquisition in the company’s history.

Prior to joining Sonoco, Dillard served as President of Personal Care Europe and Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Domtar Personal Care. Before that, he also served as President of Stanley Hydraulics and Vice President of Business Development at Stanley Black and Decker. In addition, he has also served as Executive Director in the Global Industrials Group.

Rob’s experience and deep knowledge of Sonoco’s culture and strategic opportunities will drive performance improvement and shareholder value, said Coker.

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