Trustee Spotlight
Jeffrey H. Coors served as vice chairman of Fiskeby Holdings US LLC, which operates a recycle paperboard mill in Norrkoping, Sweden. He was chairman from 2007 through 2015.
Coors retired as executive vice chairman of Graphic Packaging Corporation (NYSE: GPK) at the end of 2007 after serving as executive chairman from August 2003 until July 2006. From 1997 to 2003 he was chairman, president, and CEO of Graphic Packaging. He retired from the Graphic Packaging Board of Directors in May 2016 after serving on its board and predecessor boards from 1992.
Coors enjoyed a 25-year career with Adolph Coors Company which encompassed a broad range of management responsibilities, including board member (1975-1992) and president (1983-1988). In 1992 he became co-president of ACX Technologies, which was a public NYSE company spun off the Adolph Coors Company. In 2000 ACX Technologies changed names to Graphic Packaging Incorporated.
Coors has taken an active role in civic, educational, and business organizations. He currently serves on the boards of Fiskeby, CoorsTek LLC, RW Beckett Corporation, Mercy Ships, Hillsdale College, Independence Institute, Intercessors for America, and Adolph Coors Foundation.
He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from Cornell University.
As a Christian called to serve God in the sphere of business, Coors seeks to hear God's voice and obediently follow Him. Leadership through godly values has been his heart's cry.
Jeff and his wife, Lis, have six children and fifteen grandchildren. They live in Golden, Colorado.