GW Plastics promotes new leaders to executive team

GW Plastics recently announced that it has appointed three new leaders to its executive team.

Cathy Tempesta has been appointed to VP of human resources at GW Plastics. She has been with the company for 15 years as the director of human resources. Tempesta will be responsible for bringing the best practices to GW Plastics’s worldwide operations, which includes workforce training and career development, employee engagement and retention.

Tom Johansen was promoted to executive VP at the company. He previously served as VP and chief financial officer for the company for 26 years.

Art Bennert was also promoted to executive VP. He has worked for GW Plastics for 24 years and was previously the VP and chief operations officer.

“Cathy, Tom and Art have been instrumental to our success in transforming GW Plastics from a regional injection molding company into a leading global plastics contract manufacturer,” Brenan Riehl, president and CEO of GW Plastics said. “We are very grateful for their efforts in helping to make GW Plastics an industry leader.”

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