SEE
CEF Lead Executives
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MYRA FOSTER
VP, Sustainability Innovation and Strategy
Myra is a native of Columbia, SC. She received her BS and MS degrees in Microbiology from Clemson University. She began her professional career with Cryovac, which is w part of Sealed Air Corporation dba SEE. Myra has held various positions within the company including Food Techlogist, Packaging Specialist, and Global Strategic Marketing Director. Between 2019 and early 2023, she led the Global Sustainability Strategy and Advocacy team and w serves as VP, Sustainability Invation and Strategy. Myra has been affiliated with numerous professional and civic organizations. She currently serves on the board of GEMI (Global Environmental Management Initiative); the Clemson University Career Workshop Advisory Board; the Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences Board at Clemson University; United Way of Central Charlotte; and is a member of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition Executive Committee and Sealed Air’s Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. She is married to Steve Foster with a blended family of four children and one grandson.
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RON COTTERMANList Item 1
VP, Global Corporate Affairs
Ron leads efforts to define, develop and execute corporate strategy with a specific focus on collaborations with external stakeholders including investors, customers, suppliers and both governmental and n-governmental organizations. This role provides direct support to the CEO and other senior leaders on external affairs, and champions progress on corporate pledges related to our automation, digital and sustainability business ambitions. The position has direct supervisory responsibility for ESG Strategy, Global Regulatory Affairs and Global Government Affairs. Ron has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has over 35 years of industrial experience in invation, business development and sustainability. He currently resides in Charlotte, rth Carolina.
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TERRY GRILL
Director Sustainability - Americas
Terry is responsible for the execution of global sustainability strategies to meet the needs of all Sealed Air businesses and customers within North and Latin America, while ensuring company-wide alignment of Sealed Air’s approach to sustainability to realize the mission of creating a better way for life. Prior to joining Sealed Air in 2006, Terry was President/CEO of Industrial Insulations Incorporated and has held various positions in the biotechnology and medical supply businesses. Terry was a founding director of Sustainable Claremont and is currently on the board of directors of Claremont Wildlands Conservancy.
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EVA CHU
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Principal Engineer, Product and Process Development
Eva Chu is an engineer at Sealed Air working on new product development and manufacturing, with a focus on finding opportunities to combine performance, sustainability and manufacturing efficiency to address customer needs and create lasting meaningful change. She has worked extensively to commercialize flexible packaging solutions that improve the sustainability profile for customers by reducing carbon footprint, increasing recycled content and improved end of life of their packaging products.
Sustainability Goals
Sustainability Goals
2025 Goals
- Design and advance innovative packaging solutions to be 100% recyclable or reusable
- Achieve 50% average recycled content across all packaging solutions of which 60% is post-consumer recycled content
- Reduce greenhouse gas intensity (Scopes 1 and 2) 30% (2019 baseline)
- Achieve energy intensity reductions of 17% (2019 baseline)
- Achieve water intensity reductions of 17% (2019 baseline)
- Lead collaborations with partners worldwide to increase recycling and reuse rates
2030 Goals
- Reduce greenhouse gas intensity (Scopes 1 and 2) 46% (2019 baseline)
- Achieve energy intensity reductions of 28% (2019 baseline)
- Achieve water intensity reductions of 28% (2019 baseline)
2040 Goals
- Reach net-zero carbon emissions across operations
Latest Sustainability Reporting
(Oct 2023)
Highlights
- Generated $1.9 billion in net sales from products defined as recyclable, designed for recyclability, or reusable.
- Solutions designed for recyclability or reusability accounted for 51.5% of the material weight sold, and recycled or renewable content accounted for 17.3% of the material weight sold.
- Reduced absolute Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 16.8% and Scope 3 emissions by 23.7%, and reduced greenhouse gas intensity by 31.6%, between 2019 and 2022.
- Reduced energy intensity 18.1% between 2019 and 2022, achieving the company’s 2025 goal three years early.
- Reduced water intensity 22.4% between 2019 and 2022, achieving its 2025 target three years early.
- Diverted 67.7% of waste from landfill and external incineration in 2022.
- As of December 31, 2022, 25% of SEE’s global workforce was female and 35% of SEE’s U.S. workforce belonged to racial and ethnic minority groups.
- Created an Executive Director role within SEE to drive the organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and culture strategy and actions deeper in 2022.
- In 2022, established B-Advance, a Black employee resource group, to foster and maintain an inclusive culture at SEE through recruitment, retention, promotion, and advancement of Black employees.
- In February 2023, linked ESG goals to executive compensation, establishing a five-year performance period (2023-2027).
Recent News
2022
SPHERE: the packaging sustainability framework (WBCSD) — A new framework to help companies choose the most sustainable packaging option for specific needs and delivery systems. SPHERE can assess the environmental impacts of packaging for a particular product or identify company-level portfolio hotspots based on six principles, including circularity, impact on climate change and biodiversity loss. CEF members Dow, Microsoft, and Sealed Air were among the 12 companies that helped develop the framework. (April 2022)
2021
Invested $5 million investment in the Closed Loop Circular Plastics Fund to advance the recovery and recycling of plastics in the U.S. and Canada. (Aug 2021)
Sealed Air Corporation committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions across its operations by 2040. The announcement follows the company’s successful execution of its sustainability strategy and performance against its 2020 goal to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of its operations by 25%. The company far exceeded its 2020 goal by achieving more than a 44% reduction. (February 2021)
2020
Sealed Air Corporation is now offering a version of its Bubble Wrap brand packaging material that is made with at least 90% recycled content. (Jan 2020)
2019
Recognized as one of 120 companies — out of more than 5,500 companies analyzed — on CDP’s Supplier Engagement leaderboard (“Global Supply Chain Report 2019”) for their work with suppliers to reduce emissions and lower environmental risks in the supply chain. (Feb 2019)