Michael H. Mcgarry
Member
Michael H. McGarry, a U.S. national born in 1958, was elected to the Board of Directors of Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2024.
Background
He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Texas, and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Michael is a highly accomplished global business leader who most recently served as Executive Chairman of PPG Industries in 2023, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2016 to 2022. During his tenure, PPG Industries led a successful portfolio transformation to become one of the world’s largest specialty coatings companies, with net sales of USD 18.2 billion in 2023.
After joining PPG Industries as an engineer in 1981, Michael took on roles of increasing responsibility across all regions, from sales and market development in Pittsburgh, U.S., to leading a specialty business in Bangkok, Thailand and serving as Managing Director, PPG Europe, in Switzerland.
OTHER ACTIVITIES AND FUNCTIONS
- Member of the Board of Directors of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Tokyo, Japan
- Member of the Board of Directors of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Tokyo, Japan
- Member of the Board of Directors of C.H. Robinson, Eden Prairie, MN, US
