Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation has announced the promotion of Matt Denton to senior vice president of business planning and analysis.
“Matt’s outstanding financial and strategic capabilities are an important asset to Smurfit-Stone, and he has played a significant role in our financial restructuring,” said John Murphy, senior vice president and chief financial officer. “In his new role, Matt will continue to guide our finance teams through emergence and beyond to help achieve our long-term financial goals.”
Denton joined Smurfit-Stone in 2006 as vice president of business transformation. In that role, he created a detailed scaling plan for the Company’s Container division to support the division’s capital investment and overall transformation. He was promoted to vice president of business planning and analysis in 2007.
Prior to joining Smurfit-Stone, Denton worked for Georgia-Pacific from 1992 to 2006, where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including vice president of strategic sourcing for G-P’s North American consumer products and bleached pulp and paper operations, and vice president of finance for the company’s containerboard and packaging segment and pulp division.
Denton earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Rutgers University. He received his CPA license in 1991, and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the New Jersey Society of CPAs.
