PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE: AXTA), a leading global manufacturer of
liquid and powder coatings, is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Cahill
Lempres has joined the company’s Board of Directors. She will serve on
the Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability Committee. Ms. Lempres
is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, a leading management
consulting firm, where she also serves as a member of the firm’s Board
of Directors, leads its Global Private Equity and Principal Investing
Practice, and serves on the Board of Directors of the McKinsey
Investment Office. Ms. Lempres has announced her retirement from
McKinsey effective August 2017.
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Axalta welcomes Elizabeth Lempres to Board of Directors (Photo: Axalta)
“Liz’s global experience across a wide range of industrial and consumer
sectors will bring exceptional insights to the Board,” explained Charlie
Shaver, Axalta’s Chairman and CEO. “As Axalta continues to grow, Liz’s
background in developing business strategies for client growth and
execution will add to the Board’s ability to guide our path forward.”
Over the course of 28 years at McKinsey, Ms. Lempres has worked with
companies across multiple sectors including industrial and consumer
goods, retail, financial services, health care, and technology. She has
served clients around the world, leading work in 15 countries in the
Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Her work focuses on performance
transformation where she has brought particularly deep experience in
driving growth and in helping companies implement new business models.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Lempres led the firm’s Global Consumer
Practice and was Managing Partner of the firm’s Boston office. In
addition to her client and firm leadership roles, Ms. Lempres is engaged
in talent development at McKinsey. She has served on the Global
Compensation Policy Committee and has chaired committees responsible for
partner evaluation and hiring lateral partners. Before joining McKinsey,
Ms. Lempres held positions in engineering related fields at IBM and
General Electric.
Ms. Lempres received her AB cum laude from Dartmouth College and
a BE degree in engineering from Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of
Engineering. She received an MBA with Highest Distinction as a Baker
Scholar from the Harvard Business School.
About Axalta Coating Systems
Axalta is a leading global company focused solely on coatings and
providing customers with innovative, colorful, beautiful and sustainable
solutions. From light OEM vehicles, commercial vehicles and refinish
applications to electric motors, buildings and pipelines, our coatings
are designed to prevent corrosion, increase productivity and enable the
materials we coat to last longer. With more than 150 years of experience
in the coatings industry, the approximately 13,000 people of Axalta
continue to find ways to serve our more than 100,000 customers in 130
countries better every day with the finest coatings, application systems
and technology. For more information visit axaltacoatingsystems.com
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