ASPI Honors Sonoco CEO M. Jack Sanders with Award

M. Jack Sanders

ASPI is pleased to announce that M. Jack Sanders, CEO, Sonoco, has been awarded the ASPI 2014 Customer Executive of the Year Award. This annual award is presented to an industry executive who has demonstrated extraordinary effectiveness in working with a range of suppliers to enhance productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of his or her company using a wide spectrum of supplied products and services.


Sanders became Sonoco’s eighth CEO on April 1, 2013. He serves on the Board of Directors, executive committee and leads the Company’s management committee. During his 25-year career with Sonoco, Sanders has played an integral role in growing the company by leading all Consumer, Industrial and Protective packaging businesses at various points. Prior to assuming his current position, he was president and chief operating officer with global leadership, sales and operating responsibility for all of Sonoco’s diversified packaging businesses.