Diane Kappas is vice president, Global Sustainability for PPG. She also represents PPG in the “Sustainability 50” organization, a private community for sustainability leaders from globally respected organizations to share ideas, solutions and collaborate on climate change issues.
Kappas co-founded PPG’s Women’s Leadership Council more than two decades ago to attract, develop and retain female talent. She also served as an executive sponsor and is an active member of PPG’s LGBTQ+ employee resource network.
Kappas has more than 35 years of experience at PPG, holding a variety of business and operational leadership roles in manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, human resources, and environment, health and safety (EHS).
In her current role as PPG vice president, Global Sustainability, which is a newly created position for the company, Kappas collaborates with the businesses and functions across the organization to drive the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts. These include reducing the environmental impact of operations, growing PPG’s positive impact in the communities in which it operates and increasing sales of sustainably advantaged products to create value for customers.
Kappas also represents PPG in the Sustainability 50 organization,which is a private community for sustainability leaders from globally respected organizations to share ideas and solutions and collaborate on climate change issues.
Prior to her current role, Kappas served as PPG vice president, Automotive OEM, Americas, where she maintained and managed day-to-day relationships with major automotive customers and oversaw PPG’s mobility efforts. She also led the transformation of PPG’s U.S. Automotive OEM business to focus on winning business in the high-growth electric vehicle battery market.
Kappas earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Business Administration from Duquesne University.