Pliant names new president and CEO

Harold Bevis has been named president and CEO of Pliant Corp..

Oct 31, 2003

Bevis will join the Board of Directors and replace Ed Lapekas, who was named interim CEO in August 2003. Lapekas will succeed Timothy Walsh as nonexecutive chairman of the company; Walsh will remain on the Board of Directors.

Bevis joins Pliant directly from Emerson Electric, where he has been president of a group of manufacturing companies for the past five years.

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