PPG board adds P&G experience

Melanie Healey, former group president, North America, The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), has been elected to join its board of directors, effective immediately.

She will serve on the PPG Paints board’s audit committee and its technology and environment committee.

Melanie Healey, former group president, North America, The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), has been elected to join its board of directors, effective immediately.

She will serve on the PPG Paints board’s audit committee and its technology and environment committee.

Healey worked in the consumer goods industry for 32 years with S.C. Johnson & Sons, Johnson & Johnson and P&G. She joined P&G, a leading global provider of branded consumer packaged goods, in 1990 in Brazil. Healey advanced through various leadership roles in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and the U.S. to eventually become group president, North America, in 2009 and then group president and advisor to the chairman and chief executive in 2015.

“Melanie’s proven leadership and broad knowledge of the consumer products industry will add a unique perspective and valuable depth to our board, as PPG continues to strengthen our brand and grow our business,” said Charles E. Bunch, PPG executive chairman of the board.

Healey also serves on the boards of Target Corporation and Verizon Communications Inc.