Barry L Saunders
Barry L Saunders has been elected as vice president and chief financial officer for Sonoco effective 1 May, 2011.
Saunders, 52, was previously vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer for the US-based packaging company.
He has replaced Charles J. Hupfer, senior vice president, who has served as chief financial officer since May 2002 and been with the company for 35 years.
"During Barry's 22-year career with Sonoco, he has held several key leadership positions in treasury, finance and accounting in both corporate and global operations," said Harris E. DeLoach Jr., company chairman and chief executive officer. “He has extensive international experience and has done an excellent job in the Company's critical chief accounting officer role.”
Saunders joined Sonoco from Ernst & Young in 1989. He worked in the the treasury department for seven years before becoming director of corporate reporting and accounting. A four-year stint in Belgium as director of international finance was followed by the role of staff vice president and global controller of the firm’s industrial businesses.
He was promoted to staff vice president and corporate controller in 2003 and elected vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer in 2008.