WestRock appoints Ingevity board

WestRock has named a board of directors for Ingevity, the company’s specialty chemicals business, with seven members with extensive operations and corporate governance experience, including many in the chemical industry.

Ingevity president and CEO Michael Wilson will also serve on the board

Ingevity is expected to become a publicly traded company as the result of a spin-off from WestRock.

Richard B. Kelson will serve as the board’s chairman. Kelson is currently chairman, president and CEO of ServCo, a strategic sourcing and supply chain firm based in New York City. He was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Alcoa for nearly a decade, retiring in 2006. He also served as a member of the board of directors of MeadWestvaco Corporation and its predecessor Westvaco from 2001 to 2015.

Other members include: Jean S. Blackwell, a former 16-year executive with Cummins, Inc.; Luis Fernandez-Moreno, a senior vice president of Ashland; J. Michael Fitzpatrick, PhD, who is a member of the board of directors of packaging company Novolex; Frederick J. Lynch,  president, CEO and board member of Masonite International Corporation; and Daniel F. Sansone,  a former 26-year executive with Vulcan Materials.

Michael Wilson, Ingevity president and CEO, will also serve on the board, and said: ‘Our newly appointed board is comprised of senior executives with diverse functional strengths and outstanding leadership experience in specialty chemicals and industrial markets. I am looking forward to working with this distinguished group to establish Ingevity as a leader in specialty chemicals and high-performance carbon materials and technologies.’

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