HANNAN
Jim

• 1. Career
• 2. Education

Career

Jim Hannan is president and chief operating officer of Koch Industries, Inc. He serves on the boards of Koch Industries and several other Koch subsidiaries.

Previously, Jim served as executive vice president and CEO of Enterprises for Koch Industries, overseeing Georgia-Pacific, Infor, Molex, Koch Engineered Solutions and Koch Investment Group as well as Koch Communications and Marketing, Koch Logistics and Koch Public Affairs. His responsibilities included driving transformational change and knowledge sharing among these and all Koch companies.

Jim’s career with Koch began in 1998 in Koch Mineral Services where he was chief financial officer prior to being named president of INVISTA Intermediates in 2004. He joined Georgia-Pacific in 2005 as chief administrative officer and was promoted to CEO and president in 2007. In that role, he led one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of tissue, packaging, pulp, paper, cellulose, nonwovens, building products and related chemicals.

Jim is involved in numerous community organizations in the Atlanta area and business organizations nationally. He has worked closely with the Atlanta Police Foundation and actively serves on the Atlanta Committee for Progress. Jim is currently on the boards of the Georgia Research Alliance, Woodruff Arts Center, The Commerce Club, and the educational foundation board for California State University-East Bay.

Education

Originally from Connecticut, Jim grew up in the San Francisco Bay area where he attended California State University-East Bay and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting.