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John Friedery

John Friedery joined the Manufacturer’s Edge Board in March of 2012.  Friedery is the former Senior Vice President of Ball Corporation and President of Ball Metal Beverage Packaging Products, Americas and Asia.  With more than 30 years of operational and general management experience and 10 years as a senior corporate leader, Friedery provides Manufacturer’s Edge expertise in strategic planning, contract negotiations, cost management, and new business development. Prior to joining Ball, Friedery worked as a geologist with a number of oil & gas exploration companies.

Friedery has created, established, and implemented a variety of improved efficiencies in his career with regard to customer satisfaction, shop floor procedure standardization, software design direction for improved labor tracking, and developing an in-house training system to improve plant management and supervision.

CAREER HISTORY

  • Ball Corporation and Ball Metal Beverage Packaging Products, Americas and Asia, Senior Vice President  and President respectively, 2008 – 2010
  • Ball Corporation and Ball Packaging Products, Americas, Senior Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer respectively, 2004 – 2008
  • Ball Corporation Metal Beverage Container Operations, President,  2000 – 2003
  • Ball Corporation, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing, 1998 – 2000
  • Ball Corporation, Vice President, Manufacturing, 1996 – 1998
  • Ball Corporation, Plant Manager, metal beverage container facility, 1993 – 1996
  • Ball Corporation, Assistant Plant Manager, metal beverage container facility, 199 2 -1993
  • Ball Corporation, Various Supervisory Positions, metal beverage container facility, 1988 – 1992
  • Nondorf Oil & Gas, Geologist, 1984 – 1988
  • Various Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Companies in Ardmore, OK, Independent Geologist, 1981 – 1984
  • Dresser Atlas in Belle Chasse, LA and Ardmore, OK, Field Engineer, Offshore Gulf of Mexico, 1978 -1981

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Flowserve Corporation Board of Directors,  (member, Audit and Organization & Compensation Committees)
  • Agros International Board of Directors, Member
  • National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Member
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Member

EDUCATION

B.A. Geology, College of William & Mary

M.B.A., University of Tampa

Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School

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