James A. Harrell III
President of Global Industrial Paper Packaging
James Harrell is the President of Global Industrial Paper Packaging (IPP) at Sonoco, overseeing the Company’s approximately $2.4 billion industrial packaging business. IPP is a global leader in the production of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB), tubes, cores, cones, partition, protective packaging and other products.
Harrell joined Sonoco in 1985 and has served in various management and operational leadership roles across both the domestic and international industrial packaging businesses.
He graduated with his bachelor’s in business administration and management from Francis Marion University in 1985 and earned his MBA from Duke University in 2002. He serves on the board of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and the Francis Marion University Alumni Association.
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