Ilene S. Gordon

Biographical Information
"Ilene Gordon is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Ingredion Incorporated. Prior to this, she served as CEO of Alcan Packaging, a $6.5 billion global packaging business with 130 factories and 30,000 employees in 30 countries, serving customers in the food, beauty, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. Alcan acquired Pechiney in 2003 and prior to the acquisition; Gordon was Pechiney’s senior vice president and president of plastic packaging. Previously she spent 17 years in executive roles at the Packaging Corporation of America, a division of Tenneco Inc. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., and a Master’s degree in management from MIT's Sloan School of Management. Gordon serves on the boards of Arthur J. Gallagher & Company and the Executive Club of Chicago. "