Vice president automotive refinish
Vice president automotive refinish
Keywords: PPG Industries
Douglas C. Hepper has been elected vice president of automotive refinish at PPG Industries. He had been general manager of the unit, one of PPG’s largest and fastest-growing global strategic business units.
Douglas joined PPG in 1973 as a chemist at the Torrance, California, coatings plant, and subsequently held technical development and planning posts at several locations. He was appointed European coatings planning and market development manager in Paris in 1980, and was European coatings operations manager before becoming assistant general manager of PPG’s Italian coatings subsidiary in 1985.
He went to Cleveland in 1986 as automotive original equipment coatings technical co-ordinator, and then was director of electrodeposition coatings marketing and director of pretreatments in Troy, Michigan. Douglas returned to Paris in 1994 as European original equipment coatings marketing director, was named international managing director automotive refinish there in 1996, and moved to PPG’s Pittsburgh headquarters as automotive refinish general manager in 1997.
