Johns Manville (JM), a global building and specialty products manufacturer and a Berkshire Hathaway company, announced that Patrick Kivits will join the company as President of Insulation Systems (IS), effective December 1.
Kivits brings to JM more than 30 years of experience in the manufacturing industry, with a strong background in P&L leadership roles. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Sealed Air. Before that, he worked for five years as President of two global business units at WestRock.
He earned a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and is fluent in Dutch, German and English.