In addition to serving as an Operating Executive to CORE Industrial Partners, Jeff Chalovich is also an active board member for CORE’s portfolio company, Carton Packaging Holdings, LLC. He is a former board member of Iconex and a retired Chief Commercial Officer and President of the WestRock Corrugated Packaging business.
As Chief Commercial Officer of WestRock Corrugated Packaging, Jeff led the commercial excellence and enterprise solutions efforts across WestRock’s twenty-billion-dollar portfolio of paper, packaging, graphics, and machine sales.
As President of the Corrugated business, Jeff led the world’s second largest corrugated business with thirteen billion dollars of sales and over 150 locations in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and India. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President, Corrugated Containers, for WestRock, and was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Corrugated Containers at RockTenn, where earlier in his career, he also served as RockTenn’s Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Graphics. Jeff joined RockTenn in 2008 through the acquisition of Southern Container Corp., where he served in a variety of sales and general management roles while overseeing preprint operations.
Before joining Southern Container, Jeff was in sales for Nekoosa Packaging and Weyerhaeuser.
Jeff began his career in the paper industry following a four-year tour of duty in the U.S. Army, where he served as an officer.
Jeff earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
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