Pete Watson has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Greif Inc., since November 1, 2015. Pete previously was Chief Operating Officer for Greif. As CEO, Pete’s vision for Greif is: In industrial packaging, be the best performing customer service company in the world. This vision, together with developing a culture based on Servant Leadership, has been adopted by Greif’s 16,000 global colleagues, and is propelling Greif to be a global leader in industrial packaging. Since joining the company in 1999, Pete has served in a variety of executive positions, including Group President for Paper Packaging, Land Management, and Global Sourcing and Supply Chain. He also served as Division President of Paper Packaging, and President of CorrChoice (a Greif division). Pete holds a Master's and Bachelor’s degree from Springfield College in Massachusetts. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of OhioHealth, the Central Ohio American Heart Association, the Paper and Packaging Board, and the American Forest & Paper Association. He is also a member of the Columbus Partnership and the Ohio Business Roundtable. Pete is the past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Forest & Paper Association, and Fibre Box Association. 

Gary Martz is Greif’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary and joined the company in 2002, as its first in-house attorney. He is responsible for all aspects of Greif’s legal affairs worldwide, including corporate governance and compliance matters, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, litigation, patents, and trademarks. He is also responsible for Greif Global Real Estate Services. Gary was formerly President of Soterra LLC, a Greif subsidiary, and has also served as Greif’s Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer on an interim basis. Prior to joining Greif, Gary was a partner with the law firm of Baker & Hostetler LLP in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his Juris Doctor degree from The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toledo. He is a member of the One Columbus Leadership Circle, serves on the National Council for the Moritz College of Law and is a trustee of the Dawes Arboretum.

Bala V Sathyanarayanan serves as the Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer. He is focused on delivering a world-class, diverse, and engaged workforce that can execute on Greif’s vision of in industrial packaging, be the best performing customer service company in the world. Before Greif, Bala served as Executive Vice President for Human Resources at Xerox Corporation. Bala also led the human resource function for the Americas Enterprise Business at Hewlett-Packard Inc. and has had leadership roles at Avaya Inc., Coca Cola Inc, and United Technologies Inc. Bala earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in General Management from the University of Madras in Chennai, India. He also holds an MBA in Human Resources from Rutgers University and graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Bala was named to the list of Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business by the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC) and named Executive of the Year by Columbus CEO Magazine.

Michael Cronin serves as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Strategy and Global Sourcing & Supply Chain. Michael has over 30 years’ experience leading and developing culturally diverse teams at the CEO/President level. His strong operational experience and market focus are the basis for building and executing value creating business strategies. Since joining Greif in May 2015, Michael has successfully led the Rigid Industrial Packaging business in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, the Global Packaging Accessories and Rigid Packaging Global Key Accounts. Michael has over four decades of experience in the packaging business with a deep knowledge of aluminum rolling, recycling and paper making, combined with a deep knowledge of complex downstream operations in flexible, rigid and paperboard packaging. Prior to Greif, he had a 35-year career with Rio Tinto where he gained significant experience acquiring and integrating businesses on an international scale as President of Alcan Flexible Packaging in Europe and Brazil. He also served as President of SCA Packaging and Chief Executive Officer of Coveris Packaging.

Tim Bergwall was named Senior Vice President and Group President, Paper Packaging and Soterra LLC in February 2019. He previously served as Vice President and Group President, Paper Packaging and Soterra LLC, a Greif subsidiary since May 2015. Prior to these roles, he served as Vice President, Containerboard Mills, where he led efforts to modernize Greif’s paper mill system. Tim’s career spans 32 years in the paper packaging industry, in management roles in both large integrated firms and smaller independent companies where he focused organizations on strategic growth initiatives. He is active in the industry and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Fibre Box Association, and is an active member of the Containerboard Sector at the American Forest & Paper Association and is a Board Member of the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation. Tim earned his bachelor’s degree from Miami University, and has attended graduate programs at the Harvard Business School, Kellogg at Northwestern and The London Business School.