Chris Pledger

Prior to his current role, Pledger served as general counsel and chief development officer of Westrock Coffee Co. since October 2013, and as president of Westrock Coffee International since November 2017. He has over 25 years of experience building and leading teams both as a corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions attorney at Thompson & Knight LLP, Vinson & Elkins LLP, and Kutak Rock LLP, and as a legal, international business, and finance executive at Hunt Oil Co. and, for the past seven years, at Westrock Coffee Co.

Pledger graduated from Centenary College with a bachelor’s degree in economics and earned his juris doctorate from Louisiana State University. He will succeed John Ebner, who retired from the company in October 2020.