People: Berry Plastics Group Inc (BERY.N)
BERY.N on New York Stock Exchange
23.35USD
1 Aug 2013
23.35USD
1 Aug 2013
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Jonathan Rich |
57 | 2010 | Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer |
James Kratochvil |
56 | 1991 | Chief Financial Officer |
Rodgers Greenawalt |
2013 | Executive Vice President - Operations | |
B. Evan Bayh |
57 | 2011 | Director |
Anthony Civale |
38 | 2006 | Director |
Donald Graham |
80 | 2006 | Director |
Steven Graham |
54 | 2006 | Director |
Joshua Harris |
48 | 2006 | Director |
Robert Seminara |
41 | 2006 | Director |
David Heller |
46 | 2012 | Independent Director |
Carl Rickertsen |
53 | 2013 | Independent Director |
Dustin Stilwell |
IR Contact Officer |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Jonathan Rich |
Dr. Jonathan D. Rich is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Berry Plastics Group Inc. Prior to becoming CEO, Dr. Rich served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Momentive Performance Materials, Inc. from June 2007 until October 2010. Prior to Momentive, Dr. Rich held executive positions at Goodyear Tire and Rubber from 2000 until 2007, including President of Goodyear North American Tire and President of Goodyear Chemical. Dr. Rich began his career at General Electric in 1982, where he was employed for 18 years in a variety of R&D, operational and executive roles. |
James Kratochvil |
Mr. James M. Kratochvil is Chief Financial Officer of Berry Plastics Group Inc. Mr. Kratochvil was formerly employed by the predecessor company from 1985 to 1991 as Controller. |
Rodgers Greenawalt |
Mr. Rodgers Greenawalt has been appointed as Executive Vice President - Operations of Berry Plastics Group, Inc., effective July 1, 2013. As EVP - Operations, Greenawalt will provide strategic leadership for the Company-wide Operations, Safety, Product Development, and Creative Services teams. Greenawalt joined Berry Plastics more than 17 years ago through its acquisition of Venture Packaging. Throughout this time, he held a broad range of management positions, most recently serving as EVP of Product Management for the Company's Rigid Open Top division, prior to which he served as EVP Operations for the Company's Rigid Closed Top division. Greenawalt holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management from Clemson University. |
B. Evan Bayh |
Mr. B. Evan Bayh, III, is Director of Berry Plastics Group Inc., since 2011. Mr. Bayh is a former U.S. Senator and Indiana Governor. He was a member of the U.S. Senate from the state of Indiana from 1998 until his retirement in 2011. While in the Senate, he served on a variety of committees, including the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Prior to serving in the Senate, Mr. Bayh served as Indiana Governor from 1988 to 1997. |
Anthony Civale |
Mr. Anthony M. Civale is Director of Berry Plastics Group Inc. Mr. Civale is the Lead Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Apollo Capital Management, LLC and co-founded Apollo’s senior credit and structured credit businesses. He joined Apollo in 1999. Prior to that time, Mr. Civale was employed by Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. in the Financial Sponsors Group within its Corporate Finance Division. Mr. Civale also serves on the Board of Directors of HFA Holdings Limited, a multi-billion hedge fund of funds operator. In addition to these corporate boards, Mr. Civale also serves on the Board of Directors of Youth INC, a non-profit organization serving New York City children, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College. Mr. Civale has previously served on the boards of directors of Harrah’s Entertainment, Goodman Global, Inc. Prestige Cruises and Covalence Specialty materials. Mr. Civale graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in Political Science. |
Donald Graham |
Mr. Donald C. Graham is Director of Berry Plastics Group Inc. Mr. Graham founded Graham Packaging Company, in which he sold a controlling interest in 1998 and retained a minority ownership position until the company was sold in 2011; as of that point, The Graham Group’s three legacy industrial businesses operated in more than 90 locations worldwide. Mr. Graham participates on several advisory boards of The Graham Group’s independently owned and managed investment concerns and continues to provide guidance as an active board member of and investor in many underlying portfolio companies. |
Steven Graham |
Mr. Steven C. Graham is Director of Berry Plastics Group Inc. Prior to founding Graham Partners in 1988, Mr. Graham worked in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and as an Acquisition Officer for the RAF Group, a private investment firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Graham serves on the boards of numerous portfolio companies of Graham Partners and on the firm's Investment Committee; he also serves on the Advisory Board of certain unaffiliated private investment funds managed by other general partners. Mr. Graham also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Williams College Endowment's Non-marketable Assets Advisory Committee, and other charitable and for-profit advisory boards. Mr. Graham earned his B.A. with a double major in Philosophy and English from Williams College in 1982 and his M.B.A. from Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business in 1986. |
Joshua Harris |
Mr. Joshua J. Harris is Director of Berry Plastics Group Inc. Mr. Harris is a Senior Managing Director of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Managing Partner of Apollo Management, L.P., which he co-founded in 1990. Prior to 1990, Mr. Harris was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated. Mr. Harris also currently serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Lyondell Basell Industries, CEVA Group plc, Momentive Performance Materials and the holding company for Constellium. Mr. Harris has previously served on the boards of directors of Verso Paper, Metals USA, Nalco, Allied Waste Industries, Pacer International, General Nutrition Centers, Furniture Brands International, Compass Minerals Group, Alliance Imaging, NRT Inc., Covalence Specialty Materials, United Agri Products, Quality Distribution, Whitmire Distribution, and Noranda Aluminum. Mr. Harris graduated summa cum laude and Beta Gamma Sigma from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and received his M.B.A. from the Harvard School of Business, where he graduated as a Baker and Loeb Scholar. |
Robert Seminara |
Mr. Robert V. Seminara is Director of Berry Plastics Group Inc. Mr. Seminara joined Apollo Management, L.P. in 2003. Prior to that time, Mr. Seminara was a member of the Private Equity Group at Evercore Partners from 1996 to 2003. Prior to his tenure at Evercore, Mr. Seminara was employed by Lazard Frères & Co. in the firm’s Media & Communications Group. Mr. Seminara also serves on the Board of Directors of Skylink Aviation and is a member of the Board of Managers of Momentive Performance Materials Holdings LLC. Mr. Seminara graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. |
David Heller |
Mr. David B. Heller is Independent Director of Berry Plastics Group Inc., effective October 04, 2012. Mr. Heller is the former Global Co-Head of the Securities Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he also served on the Management Committee. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1989 in New York and also spent time living and working in Tokyo and London during his career with the firm. He retired from Goldman in March of 2012. Currently he serves as a Trustee for the Acumen Fund, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Project Morry, and Third Way. He earned a B.A. from Harvard College and continues to be involved with the university as Co-Chair of his class fundraising efforts. |
Carl Rickertsen |
Mr. Carl J. Rickertsen is Independent Director of Berry Plastics Group Inc. Mr. Rickertsen is currently managing partner of Pine Creek Partners, a private equity investment firm, a position he has held since January 2004. From January 1998 to January 2004, Mr. Rickertsen was chief operating officer and partner of Thayer Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm. From September 1994 to January 1998, Mr. Rickertsen was a managing partner at Thayer. Mr. Rickertsen was a founding partner of three Thayer investment funds and is a published author. Mr. Rickertsen has been a member of the Board of Directors of MicroStrategy, a publicly-traded software firm, since October 2002; Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund, a closed-end senior bank debt fund since 2011; Noranda Aluminum, a U.S.-based aluminum producer, since 2012, and Berry Plastics, a packaging manufacturer, since 2013. Mr. Rickertsen was formerly a board member of publicly-traded companies Convera Corporation, a search-engine software company, UAP Holding Corp., a distributor of agriculture products, and Homeland Security Capital Corporation, a specialized technology provider to government and commercial customers. Mr. Rickertsen received a BS from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
Dustin Stilwell |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Jonathan Rich |
1,646,960 |
James Kratochvil |
969,547 |
Rodgers Greenawalt |
-- |
B. Evan Bayh |
-- |
Anthony Civale |
-- |
Donald Graham |
-- |
Steven Graham |
-- |
Joshua Harris |
-- |
Robert Seminara |
-- |
David Heller |
-- |
Carl Rickertsen |
-- |
Dustin Stilwell |
-- |
As Of 28 Sep 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Jonathan Rich |
0 | 0 |
James Kratochvil |
0 | 0 |
Rodgers Greenawalt |
0 | 0 |
B. Evan Bayh |
0 | 0 |
Anthony Civale |
0 | 0 |
Donald Graham |
0 | 0 |
Steven Graham |
0 | 0 |
Joshua Harris |
0 | 0 |
Robert Seminara |
0 | 0 |
David Heller |
0 | 0 |
Carl Rickertsen |
0 | 0 |
Dustin Stilwell |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
MILES MARK W |
60,174 | $23.02 |
APOLLO MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS GP L L C |
15,803,456 | $20.87 |
KRATOCHVIL JAMES M |
88,840 | $23.28 |
GOLDSTEIN LAWRENCE |
10,000 | $23.99 |
RICH JONATHAN D |
13,869 | $21.63 |
KRATOCHVIL JAMES M |
50,000 | $23.93 |
SALMON THOMAS |
31,074 | $21.21 |
GOLDSTEIN LAWRENCE |
15,000 | $20.77 |
MILES MARK W |
53,094 | $19.24 |
BEGLE CURTIS |
24,200 | $19.06 |
UNFRIED GLEN ADAM |
44,750 | $19.14 |
KRATOCHVIL JAMES M |
25,000 | $18.15 |
KRATOCHVIL JAMES M |
125,790 | $18.00 |
KRATOCHVIL JAMES M |
1,552 | $18.25 |
APOLLO MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS GP L L C |
17,383,802 | $16.41 |
CIVALE ANTHONY M |
43,253 | $8.16 |
CIVALE ANTHONY M |
43,253 | $8.16 |
SEMINARA ROBERT V |
43,253 | $8.16 |
SEMINARA ROBERT V |
43,253 | $8.16 |
BAYH B EVAN III |
24,500 | $7.22 |
HARRIS JOSHUA J |
43,253 | $8.16 |
BEGLE CURTIS |
500 | $16.00 |
BECKER RANDALL J |
6,000 | $16.00 |
RICH JONATHAN D |
29,410 | $16.00 |
THOMPSON JEFFREY D |
2,500 | $16.00 |

