With more than 30 years of management experience in farming, processing, and commercialization of food and agricultural products, Tobias Grasso joined Sealed Air in 2015 and is now President of the Americas.

Tobias is a graduate of Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing and finance. His experience prior to Sealed Air includes serving as President of Mosaic Company Brazil and 18 years at Cargill in several management and leadership positions in the company’s food, agriculture, and beverage businesses.

Tobias currently serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Meat Institute. He and his family reside in Charlotte, NC.

Shawn Harris holds more than 20 years of Sealed Air experience, all that have been focused on protein packaging. After graduating from Texas A&M University with both a Bachelors and Masters of Science degree in Animal Science, Shawn joined Sealed Air in 1995 and has worked in several roles including R&D and technical sales, as well as leadership roles in sales and marketing.

In his current role as Executive Director of Marketing for the proteins platform in the Americas, Shawn is responsible for driving top line growth for portfolio of packaging materials, equipment, automation and services.

Shawn is a sponsor’s board member of the National Future Farmers of America and serves as the president of a local high school athletic booster club. He and his family reside in Fort Mill, SC just outside Charlotte.

After a series of roles at General Motors, Air Liquide, and Valspar, Larry Churchwell has brought marketing, strategy, and engineering leadership to Sealed Air since 2015.  

Currently the Executive Director of Equipment & Automation Marketing for the Americas, Larry manages the marketing strategy and portfolio for equipment and automation across our food and protective packaging platforms. Since 2018, Larry has focused much of his strategic vision on delivering innovative automation solutions to address challenges in the fresh red meat sector. 

Larry has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Memphis and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Maryland. Larry and his family reside in Mooresville, NC just north of Charlotte. 

Currently the Executive Director of Automation & Equipment Sales for the Americas, Joseph Fiondella brings over 30 years of Sealed Air tenure and experience to our food and beverage packaging business. After 19 years as part of the company’s industrial division where he held various technical and management roles in North America and Asia, Joseph joined the food division in 2007 as Global Systems Director, Integrated Solutions.  

As part of the food packaging division, Joseph led systems and integration teams in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand before bringing this considerable global experience to his current role.  

Joseph has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and has been an active member of engineering honor societies Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma since 1985. He recently relocated to the company’s Charlotte headquarters from operations in Root, Switzerland.