Managing Director | Packaging Optimization
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Working with some of the largest and most innovative brands in the world, Jared has developed best-in-class packaging optimization programs, in conjunction with or following strategic sourcing events.
He is a degreed packaging engineer with extensive global packaging experience. Jared has over 20 years of achievements in sales, design, engineering, and optimization, delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in realized value improvement.
After starting out with Packaging Design at Hasbro toy company, Jared began his career in a sales role in the corrugated industry. Frustrated that every solution involved delivering “more corrugated” he made the switch to Unisource which became Veritiv after a merger with XpedX. Over the next 13 years it was here for, working with brand owners based in the States that manufactured globally, that a market need was identified for a material and supplier agnostic to packaging optimization solution.
After Veritiv, he spent nearly 4 years at a large packaging consulting firm, building a new practice focused on value optimization, before starting his own consulting firm, ROI Packaging. In January 2022, ROI Packaging and Provident Spend Management executed a merger to form Seismic O+E.
Jared is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS in Packaging Engineering / Packaging Science. He also holds a Certificate from Wharton in Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.