PDA Leadership Team
For over a decade, the leadership team has been guiding the direction of the PDA vision.
We are a community of like-minded souls who want to bring customers value
From our corporate team and board members, down to our service techs and operations crew, our daily lives are guided by our commitment to community, sustainability, ethics, safety, and people, as well as our overall message to enable ingenuity in packaging. Our decision-making and ability to solve some of the toughest challenges is unprecedented because of the way we lead ourselves, as well as our staff.
Our board members work to enforce and maintain our bylaws, interpret success, financial review (development and approval), strategic direction, and employee review. We also know that success is made by the people who work in the daily operations, so we provide work environments that allow everyone to feel safe, knowledgable, and supported.
Our shared values system is the cornerstone of our operations.
A letter from our Founder
In early 2006, my dream of creating an organization that would support and sustain the independent industrial packaging community became a reality.
Also believing in and supporting that dream were six prominent distributors and with their help, PDA was born with the idea of bringing together the brightest and the best in the field, across all of North America, to act as an agent for education, sharing best practices and developing new business for all of our partners, including distributors, suppliers and our customers.
I am pleased to say that in these 15 years we have grown significantly in both size and scope. PDA now covers the United States, Canada, Honduras, Mexico and the Caribbean with reach throughout Europe, partnering with a UK distributor. We are truly a global business and are still growing. PDA represents over $2.1 Billion in packaging sales to our served communities and will continue to gain business as well as recognition within the industry.
Something else happened along the way! We discovered that we all had a sincere and genuine need to be stewards of strength and wellbeing to the communities we serve. We understood that our customers are also our neighbors and friends and that we needed to be good shepherds of everything they represent. We do this by making sure we practice solid environmental practices, employing citizens within our communities and through philanthropic behavior.
I am proud of what PDA has become and what it will continue to be, most of all I am proud of our ongoing efforts to support local charities that seldom get the exposure needed to continue to do good work.
I want to thank all of PDA’s partners, distributors, suppliers and customers for allowing us the privilege of being part of their success and for their support of what we stand for.
George Strobel
President, Packaging Distributors of America
Also believing in and supporting that dream were six prominent distributors and with their help, PDA was born with the idea of bringing together the brightest and the best in the field, across all of North America, to act as an agent for education, sharing best practices and developing new business for all of our partners, including distributors, suppliers and our customers.
