Mark Burgess joined Diversey as chief executive officer in December 2018.

Prior to joining Diversey, Mark served as CEO of Signode Industrial Group (SIG), a $2.4 billion global manufacturer of industrial packaging consumables, tools and equipment with 88 manufacturing facilities across six continents.  He joined SIG in March 2014 after The Carlyle Group’s acquisition of SIG from Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Prior to that role, Mark served as CEO of Graham Packaging Company, Inc. a $3 billion global manufacturer of rigid plastic containers, working there from December 2007 to April 2012.  As CEO, Mark led the firm’s IPO in 2010 and subsequent sale to Reynolds Group Holdings in 2011. Earlier in his career, he served as CEO and CFO of Anchor Glass Container Corporation, a U.S. manufacturer of glass containers, from May 2005 until September 2006. He also previously served as executive vice president and CFO of Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. from April 2003 to April 2005.  Between 1990 and 2003, Mark held senior financial and operational management roles at JL French Automotive Castings and Trailmobile Corporation, and prior to that, he served as a vice president at Chase Manhattan Bank. 

Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Dickinson College and a Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Mark serves on the board of directors of Eastman Kodak Company and serves on the board of trustees for Dickinson College.  He was previously the Chairman of the Clondalkin Group, a global manufacturer of flexible and specialty plastic packaging solutions, where he served as a director from December 2012 (becoming chairman in June 2013) until December 2016, and is a former director of the Polymer Group, where he served from March 2011 to June 2013.