Craig Rudin

Mr. Rudin joined GDI in January of 2015 as the CEO of their manufacturing and product distribution business. He has spent the last 30 years in the chemical manufacturing and distribution businesses. Starting out with his family at Huntington Labs which was sold to Ecolab, Craig went on to manage the Canadian Professional Products business for Ecolab an multinational chemical manufacturing business, later moving to their head office in Minnesota where he lead their business development and M&A activities for their janitorial cleaning segment. In 2002 Craig joined Unisource Worldwide, a $6 billion wholesale distribution business when Bain Capital purchased the business from Georgia Pacific Corporation. He held numerous roles at Unisource working with Bain to rationalize and improve the performance of the business most notably as senior Vice-President of business development and SVP/General Manager Canada. Prior to joining GDI Craig was the CEO for the America’s for Asia Pulp and Papers Tissue division. He has extensive international business experience in turn around management, sales & marketing, manufacturing, M&A and business development. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Carleton University and is a graduate of the executive management program at the Wharton School of Business.