Axalta Hires Two Senior Vice Presidents

Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (Houston, Texas) today announced that Shelley Bausch is joining Axalta as senior vice president of Global Industrial Coatings, effective January 1, 2021, with Jeremy Rohen joining as senior vice president of Strategy and Business Development, effective January 18, 2021.

"Shelley is an outstanding business leader with extensive experience in industrial products and coatings. She will lead our current Industrial Coatings businesses globally, which include energy solutions, coil, wood, general industrial and powder coatings, and drive expansion into new industrial coatings markets," says Robert W. Bryant, Axalta's president and CEO. "Shelley is a dynamic leader with experience managing complex product portfolios sold into diverse and fragmented industrial end-markets. She is a valuable addition to our team, and I'm confident she will drive growth in our existing as well as new end-markets."

"Axalta's Industrial business has made significant strides in the past several years, and I look forward to joining a great team for the challenge of taking it to the next level and continuing to make it a major growth engine for the Company," says Bausch.

"Jeremy will lead our enterprise strategy development and mergers and acquisitions function globally and work with our global business leaders to identify potential partnerships, acquisitions and alternative strategies to drive Axalta's future growth," says Bryant. "Jeremy is a world-class M&A leader with experience in transformative deals and has a strong background in strategy development. He will work closely with our business leadership to accelerate growth and will be a great addition to our leadership team."

"I am thrilled to join Axalta at this point in the company's evolution and am excited to play a key role in the realization of Axalta's ambitious growth plans," says Rohen.