Board of Directors
Paul T. Stecko has served as Executive Chairman of PCA since July 2010. He served as Chief Executive Officer from January 1999 through June 2010 and has been Chairman of PCA's Board of Directors since March 1999. From November 1998 to April 1999, Mr. Stecko served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Tenneco Inc. From January 1997 to November 1998, Mr. Stecko served as Chief Operating Officer of Tenneco. From December 1993 through January 1997, Mr. Stecko served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tenneco Packaging Inc. Prior to joining Tenneco Packaging, Mr. Stecko spent 16 years with International Paper Company. Mr. Stecko is a member of the board of directors of Tenneco Inc., Smurfit Kappa Group Limited, State Farm Mutual Insurance Company and the American Forest & Paper Association.
Cheryl K. Beebe has served as a director of PCA since May 2008. Ms. Beebe has been the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Corn Products International, Inc., a manufacturer and seller of a number of ingredients to food and industrial customers, since February 2004 and has been employed by Corn Products International since 1997. Ms. Beebe previously served as Vice President, Finance from July 2002 to February 2004, as Vice President from February 1999 to 2004 and as Treasurer from 1997 to February 2004.
Henry F. Frigon has served as a director of PCA since February 2000. Mr. Frigon served as Chairman, President and CEO of CARSTAR, a provider of collision repair services, from June 1998 until his retirement in February 2001. Since 1994, he has been a private investor and business consultant. Mr. Frigon served as Executive Vice President – Corporate Development and Strategy and Chief Financial Officer of Hallmark Cards, Inc., from 1990 through 1994. He retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of BATUS Inc. in March 1990 after serving with the company for over ten years.
Hasan Jameel has served as a director of PCA since May 2008. Dr. Jameel is the Ellis Signe Olsen Professor of pulp and paper technology at North Carolina State University. He has served on the faculty at North Carolina State University since 1987. From 1979 to 1987, he was employed by International Paper Company at its corporate research center and in its mill operations. In March 2007, Dr. Jameel was named a TAPPI fellow, which is an award given to individuals who have made extraordinary technical or service contributions to the pulp and paper industry and/or TAPPI. TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper and converting industries
Mark W. Kowlzan has served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of PCA since July 2010. From 1998 through June 2010, Mr. Kowlzan led the company's containerboard mill system, first as Vice President and General Manager and then as Senior Vice President - Containerboard. From 1996 through 1998, Mr. Kowlzan served in various senior mill-related operating positions with PCA and Tenneco Packaging, including as manager of the Counce linerboard mill. Prior to joining Tenneco Packaging, Mr. Kowlzan spent 15 years at International Paper Company, where he held a series of operational and managerial positions within its mill organization.
Samuel M. Mencoff has served as a director of PCA since January 1999. Mr. Mencoff has been employed principally by Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, since 1993 and currently serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer. From 1987 until 1993, Mr. Mencoff served as Vice President of First Chicago Venture Capital. Mr. Mencoff is a member of the board of directors of Forest Products Holdings, LLC (d/b/a Boise Cascade), and Smurfit Kappa Group Limited
Roger B. Porter has served as a director of PCA since May 2005. Mr. Porter is currently the IBM Professor of Business and Government at Harvard University and has served on the faculty at Harvard University since 1977. Mr. Porter also held senior economic policy positions in the Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush White Houses, serving as special assistant to the President and executive secretary of the Economic Policy Board from 1974 to 1977, as deputy assistant to the President and director of the White House Office of Policy Development from 1981 to 1985, and as assistant to the President for economic and domestic policy from 1989 to 1993. Mr. Porter is also a director of Tenneco Inc., Zions Bancorporation, Pactiv Corporation and Extra Space Storage Inc.
James D. Woodrum has served as a director of PCA since May 2009. Mr. Woodrum is the Associate Dean of the Executive and Evening MBA program at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison since 2009 and has been a faculty member and consultant since 2007. Prior to joining the university, from 2003 to 2006, Mr. Woodrum served as a principal and senior consultant with Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting and outsourcing firm, primarily advising the boards of large organizations on compensation and other governance matters. From 2000 to 2003, he was a leader in the Corporate Development group at Hewitt Associates, focused on acquisitions and strategic alliances. From 1984 to 2000, he held a variety of other positions at Hewitt Associates with increasing responsibilities.

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