Donna McPherson (Past Speaker)

Donna McPherson is the President of Cordstrap North America, a global leader in cargo securing with over 50 years of experience in sales, manufacturing and partnerships in over 50 countries world-wide.  

Donna came to Cordstrap in 2017 after a 20-year career with Kimberly-Clark Professional.  She brings a strong cross-functional background in sales, marketing and manufacturing.  She is a seasoned General Manager who spent 7 years on an expat assignment leading the KCP Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) business. 

Donna’s focus with Cordstrap has been on developing and implementing a growth strategy which includes delivering unique solutions that address challenges Chemical companies are facing in compliance, safety and standardization & consistency.  

Donna has a BS in Marketing Management and is working on her MSc in Strategic Planning.  Donna and her husband live in Chicago, IL. 

Cordstrap is dedicated to working in partnership with manufacturers and transporters to provide advice and solutions to global cargo securing needs. One of the biggest challenges our customers face is striking the right balance between competing forces and priorities in the market: Changing and strengthening regulations, demands from the market for both quality and cost improvement and the need for continuous operational improvement and streamlining.  At Cordstrap we are proud of the role we play to advise customers on these issues and to develop and implement solutions that strike the right balance and add value to our customers.  A big success has been the role we have played in growing the awareness on the importance of compliance by the industry by delivering cargo securing solutions with products designed to meet or surpass codes and regulation.