Distribution Solutions Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSGR) has appointed Sean Dwyer as senior vice President, head of mergers & acquisitions and strategy, the company announced Monday.<\/p>\n
Dwyer joins DSG with extensive experience leading strategy and M&A efforts across the distribution, transportation and logistics, and packaging sectors. Over the course of his career, he has completed more than $30 billion in transactions and built a reputation for delivering disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation, according to a press release.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to welcome Sean as DSG\u2019s new M&A and strategy leader,\u201d said Bryan King, DSG Chairman and CEO, in a statement. \u201cSean\u2019s appointment strengthens our ability to pursue strategic opportunities that support our long-term growth. He brings deep industry insight, a disciplined approach to capital allocation, and a proven record of value creation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most recently, Dwyer served as chief strategy and corporate development officer for BlueLinx Holdings, a publicly traded building products distribution company with roughly $3 billion in annual revenue. Before that, he built and led the corporate development function at WestRock Company \u2014 now part of Smurfit WestRock \u2014 a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging with about $31 billion in annual revenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have meaningful opportunities ahead of us, and I look forward to collaborating with our teams to identify strategic opportunities that strengthen DSG and create long-term value for our shareholders,\u201d said Dwyer.<\/p>\n
He will report directly to Ron Knutson, EVP and chief financial officer, and work closely with the LKCM Headwater team and DSG\u2019s three vertical leadership teams.<\/p>\n
DSG is a multi-platform specialty distribution company serving approximately 200,000 customers across MRO, OEM, and industrial technology markets with 4,400 employees worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Distribution Solutions Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSGR) has appointed Sean Dwyer as senior vice President, head of mergers &…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17297,116,118,866,117,33278,3433,92],"class_list":["post-63674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-distribution","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-inc-staff","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-lkcm-headwater","tag-personnel","tag-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}