Managing Director's Profile
Phillip Karig
Managing Director
Mathelin Bay Associates LLC
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Berlin, Germany
About Phillip Karig
Mr. Karig has worked for over 20 years in the plastics industry, most recently 9 years as Vice President of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management and then Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at Spartech Corporation (NYSE: SEH) a US $ 1 billion company that performed sheet and rollstock extrusion, injection molding, profile extrusion, calendaring and blown film extrusion, as well as compound and color concentrates production.
Previously, he led the procurement and logistics functions for 11 years at Uniroyal Technology Corporation, which produced Royalite brand extruded sheet products, Naugahyde brand vinyl coated fabrics and Ensolite brand foam products.
Prior to Uniroyal, he was at Leaseway Transportation Corp., a US $ 1 billion public company, for 5 years as a Strategic Planner before assuming Profit and Loss responsibility for a network of bulk plastics warehouses and rail to truck plastics transfer facilities.
During his career he has purchased multi-million lbs. quantities of plastic resins, including: ABS, ASA, SAN, Acrylic, Polycarbonate, APET, PETG, PVC (suspension and dispersion), Polystyrene, Polyethylene, Polypropylene and more.
Mr. Karig earned his Master's degree at Harvard University and his Bachelor's at the State University of New York. He is a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Fellow, has taught Game Theory and Decision-Making, and has also worked with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee.
He speaks English and German and is studying Mandarin Chinese.