Kimber Shray Promoted to Vice President of Marketing for GP PRO

GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific, announced today that it has promoted Kimber Shray to vice president of marketing. In this role, Shray will lead GP PRO’s marketing team and guide sales enablement initiatives.

 

“The coronavirus pandemic created unprecedented shifts in the marketplace that continue to drive critical changes in what our customers need and in how they operate. GP PRO is tasked with being the best partner we can be as we provide them with guidance, products, service, and support,” said Mike Adams, president of GP PRO. “During her time with Georgia-Pacific and, specifically with GP PRO, Kimber has demonstrated a depth of insight into the customer mindset, including an understanding of how to serve our partners in good times and in bad, and how to help them succeed through it all. I’m delighted to have her at the helm of our marketing operations.”

 

“GP PRO is a market-based organization dedicated to empowering its employees and its customers to work together to achieve success,” said Shray. “As I move into my new role, I look forward to helping our sales and marketing teams more deeply understand the trends driving our customers’ needs and to helping our customers more effectively benefit from our knowledge, solutions and resources as they navigate their purchasing journey.”

 

Shray has been with Georgia-Pacific for 11 years. Most recently, she led GP PRO’s customer marketing and segment insights team, where she was largely responsible for optimizing the company’s integrated sales, marketing and category planning process and supporting its proprietary insight-based selling platform, GPXperience. Prior to that, she was an integral member of the company’s Digital Core team, which oversaw an enterprise-wide digital transformation initiative. Specifically, Shray led the roll-out of SAP Marketing Cloud and co-led the SAP Hybris Commerce launch. She also spent several years working on Georgia-Pacific’s retail division. Her earlier career experience includes positions with Heinz and MatchPoint Marketing.

 

About GP PRO
Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are among the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, office papers, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products, and related chemicals.  The company operates approximately 150 facilities and employs approximately 30,000 people directly and creates nearly 80,000 jobs indirectly. GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific, manufactures and sells well-known brands like ActiveAire®, Angel Soft® Professional Series, Brawny®, Compact®, Dixie®, Dixie Ultra®, enMotion®, and Pacific Blue™. GP PRO products meet restroom, foodservice, and break room needs for office buildings, healthcare, foodservice, high traffic, lodging, retail, and education facilities, plus a wide range of industrial and manufacturing facilities in North America.  For more information, visit: gppro.com.