BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair
Jim Reed
President, YKK Corporation of America, and
YKK Corporation Group Office
Robert Abernathy
Retired Chairman & CEO
Halyard Health
David P. Abney (Director Emeritus)
Chairman & CEO
United Parcel Service
Paige Alexander
Chief Executive Officer
The Carter Center
Joseph Bankoff
Professor of Practice
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Georgia Institute of Technology
M. Brian Blake, Ph.D.
President
Georgia State University
W. Frank Blount
Chairman & CEO
JI Ventures
John Hope Bryant
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Operation HOPE, Inc.
Asma Farid
Vice President and Managing Partner
Farids & Co. LLC
Steve Gundlach
President, Global Logistics & Distribution
UPS Supply Chain Solutions
Hua Li
Senior Vice President, Merchandising
The Home Depot
Eric J. Joiner
Vice Chairman
AJC International
Dennis Lockhart
Retired President and CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Samuel S. Olens
Partner,
Dentons
Allison Padilla-Goodman
Vice President, Southern Division
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Richard Phillips, Ph.D.
Dean
Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Jonathan “Rocky” Rief
Senior Director for Economic Policy and Fiscal Policy
The Coca-Cola Company
Jeffrey M. Salvatore
Partner
Deloitte LLP
Jagdish Sheth, Ph.D.
Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Goizueta Business School, Emory University;
Founder and chairman of India, China, America Institute; Director, Wipro Ltd.
Bernard Taylor, Sr
Arbitrator and Mediator, Judicial Arbitration Mediation Services (JAMS) and Retired Partner,
Alston & Bird
Clyde C. Tuggle
Co-Founder
Pine Island Capital Partners
Former Senior Adviser to the CEO of The Coca-Cola Company
Rohit Verma
Chief Executive Officer
Crawford & Company
Kathleen Walters
Retired EVP and Group President, Consumer Products
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
Chris Wood
Managing Director and Head of Syndicated & Leveraged Finance
Truist Securities
Meet the Chair
Jim Reed
President, YKK Corporation of America
On June 2022, Jim Reed was elected to serve as the sixth chair of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta’s board of directors.
Jim Reed joined YKK Corporation of America in January 2009 as Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel and was promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel in 2013. During his tenure at YKK, he has been responsible for handling all legal and compliance matters and maintaining the legal health of the YKK companies in the North and Central America Region, which consists of three operating companies in the United States, YKK (U.S.A.) Inc., YKK AP America Inc., and Tape Craft Corporation, as well as six operating companies in Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia.
“Jim has a deep understanding of legal and compliance issues arising under U.S. law that affect YKK companies around the world,” said Alex Gregory, Chairman and CEO, YKK Corporation of America. “Over the past eight years, he has ensured that YKK remains an ethical and legally compliant organization. And after working closely with our business leaders from Canada to Colombia, Jim also has a firm grasp of our customers, myriad products, and exciting growth opportunities. Today’s challenging business environment requires strong, courageous leadership; I look forward to seeing YKK grow and improve under Jim’s enthusiastic and most capable guidance.”
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