お知らせ • Aug 12
PPG Industries, Inc. Announces Management Changes, Effective January 1, 2026
PPG Industries, Inc. announced the appointment of Joe Gette, 53, currently vice president, deputy general counsel and secretary, as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, effective January 1, 2026. He will also join the company’s operating and executive committees, reporting to PPG chairman and CEO Tim Knavish. In this role, Gette will succeed Anne M. Foulkes, 62, current senior vice president and general counsel, who has announced her intent to retire. Effective January 1, Foulkes, 62, will transition to serve as senior vice president, legal and special projects, to ensure a smooth transition of general counsel responsibilities and oversee certain projects for the company. She will continue to report to Knavish in this new executive leadership role. Gette joined PPG in 2005 as an assistant counsel and has held roles of increasing responsibility since that time supporting several PPG business units, regional operations and serving as the lead transactional lawyer for the company. In 2018, Gette was appointed assistant general counsel, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and securities, and then in 2022 was named vice president, deputy general counsel and secretary. In his current role, Joe has corporate secretary responsibilities while continuing to provide oversight and support for the company’s corporate development activities. He also has oversight responsibility for securities and commercial legal activities for PPG’s U.S. and Latin America, North and South regions. Prior to joining PPG, Joe worked for the law firm K&L Gates in Pittsburgh. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College and his law degree from Vanderbilt University. Foulkes joined PPG in Pittsburgh in 1995, initially supporting the chemicals group on commercial and contract legal matters. Since that time, she has worked in a number of roles of increasing responsibility, including providing legal support to all of the company’s business units and the environment, health and safety (EHS) function, and serving as counsel for the corporate development group, providing legal support for global acquisition and divestiture activities. In 2005, Foulkes was promoted to corporate counsel with responsibility for all commercial, antitrust, labor and employment, and intellectual property legal matters for the aerospace, architectural coatings, automotive refinish, and protective and marine coatings businesses, and in 2010, she was promoted to assistant general counsel. Foulkes was appointed assistant general counsel and secretary of the company in 2011 and then in 2016, was elected as vice president, associate general counsel and secretary. She was elected an executive officer in 2018 and named to her current role. Prior to joining PPG, Foulkes was a litigation attorney with the law firm of Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott in Pittsburgh. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a law degree from The Dickinson School of Law. Anne is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel and served on the board of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank from 2011 to 2021. She currently serves on the Board of the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.