Colin is one of the most senior and successful executives in the global packaging industry with a thorough understanding of the key business drivers in many sectors.

He is a business leader with character and independence of mind. His style is open, supportive and consensual. He understands critical success factors and his strategic and analytical skills contribute to the Board and its committees.

In 2006, Colin was appointed to the Board of Directors of Turkcell, a mobile phone operator in Turkey. He serves as a Voting Member and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Turkcell's Board of Directors. He is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Treofan, a packaging film company, with activities in Europe, North America and South Africa. He is Chairman of Clondalkin, a consumer and industrial packaging company.

Colin served as President of SCA, North America, which is active in the packaging sector, personal care an paper tissue products. From 1988 to 2001, he was the President of SCA Packaging, prior to which he served as the Managing Director of Bowater, a corrugated packaging company, for four years. From 1978 to 1984, he was first the Sales Director and then the General Manager of Chicopee in The Netherlands, a non-woven fabrics company of Johnson & Johnson.

Colin Williams holds an MBA degree in finance from NYU, and M.Sc. degree in physical chemistry and a doctorate from Lund University in Sweden. He is married with two grown-up children.