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The Board of Directors of Elevate Textiles, a textile manufacturer based in Charlotte, N.C., announced that Jeffrey P. Pritchett will join the company as CEO and a member of the board of directors.
“We are all thrilled that Jeff is joining and confident that his diverse experience driving commercial and operational excellence as well as successfully navigating strategic M&A initiatives make him the ideal leader to achieve our business objectives and maximize our impact as a global, consolidated platform,” says Jim Continenza, chairman of the board of directors for Elevate Textiles. “Jeff brings the right combination of leadership experience, passion and expertise to drive the next phase of growth, innovation and sustainability for all of the stakeholders at Elevate.”
“I am honored to be joining Elevate and look forward to partnering with the board and our leadership teams to build on the significant accomplishments they have made to date. I am impressed with the differentiated global footprint and integrated platform, customer collaboration, environmental solutions, innovative product development and operational expertise that I’ve seen thus far, and I’m incredibly excited about what we will accomplish together in the future to continue to drive growth and improvement around our delivery of premium, mission-critical textile solutions globally,” says Pritchett.
Pritchett joins Elevate with more than 25 years of multi-industry global leadership experience in public and private companies. He most recently served as senior managing director and senior operating executive of Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company LLC, an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management L.P. He also held numerous Cerberus portfolio company board and leadership roles.
Earlier in his career, he served as COO and a board member at Champion One LLC, as executive vice president, CFO and head of global operations at InnerWorkings and held senior leadership positions at Vertis Communications, including senior vice president and CFO. Before that, he held various leadership positions at General Motors and Delphi Automotive.