Michael H. McGarry has been elected president and chief executive officer of PPG, effective September 1, 2015. McGarry will join the company’s board of directors immediately.
McGarry, who has served as PPG’s president and chief operation officer since March, will succeed chairman and CEO Charles E. Bunch in the role of CEO. Bunch, who has led PPG for the last decade, will continue as executive chairman.
During his 34 years with PPG, McGarry has served in a variety of key business and functional leadership roles in the United States, Europe and Asia. In recent years, he helped lead several strategic actions that have transformed PPG’s business portfolio, most notably the acquisition of SigmaKalon; the separation of PPG’s former commodity chemicals business; the acquisition and integration of AkzoNobel’s North American architectural coatings business; and, most recently, the acquisition of Consorcio Comex, S.A. de C.V.
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