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Georgia-Pacific has promoted Patrick Legrand and Dominique Deschamps to senior leadership roles within its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business.
The company has recently established two fully accountable business units - a Consumer business and an Away-From-Home business, both for EMEA. Legrand, who formerly served as president of Georgia-Pacific France and Belux, has been promoted to president, consumer business - EMEA. Deschamps, previously general manager, Away-From-Home France, has been promoted to senior vice president and managing director, Away-From-Home business - EMEA.
They will report to Kathy Walters, executive vice president - global consumer products who is based in Atlanta. Legrand and Deschamps will lead the business in Europe together with Jeff Koeppel, senior vice president, manufacturing and supply chain - EMEA.
"These new leadership roles will help us create long-term value, accelerate innovation, improve the alignment of the business and position it for future growth," said Legrand.
"I am confident that we are poised to become a more dynamic and successful business. We have some exciting products in the offing and are exploring some interesting opportunities for expansion overseas," said Deschamps.
Legrand joined Georgia-Pacific in 2000 as General Manager for Vania Expansion, Polive Laboratories - GP's joint ventures with Johnson & Johnson in France - and the international personal care business. In 2006, he was promoted to President, GP France/Belux. He has pursued an extensive international career. Based in London, he worked for Tambrands as vice president - international marketing covering the EMEA region and Asia Pacific. He later moved to SSL Healthcare in the UK as managing director. Patrick has also worked for Unilever and Johnson & Johnson. He has a degree from Essec.
Deschamps began his career with the French building materials company, Lafarge, after graduating from business school. He joined Georgia-Pacific in 1991, starting out in Sodipan, the French division for private label and Lotus tabletop. He held various European positions within the company as strategic planning manager and manufacturing planning director before moving to Georgia-Pacific's Great Britain and Ireland business in 2000 as Supply Chain Director and then as General Manager for the UK Away from Home division. He returned to France in 2005 to lead the French Away from Home business.
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