Steve Arendsen

Steve Arendsen currently serves as President - North America at Tosca since September 2020, after a lengthy career at Georgia-Pacific LLC from August 1990 to August 2020, where Steve held various leadership roles, including Vice President of Procurement Operations and Vice President of Divisional Procurement. Arendsen managed substantial teams and operations, driving significant cost savings, process improvements, and talent development initiatives across procurement, supply chain, and operations. Achievements include establishing a centralized procurement model that generated incremental value of $100 million annually, creating an analytics team that resulted in direct cost savings of $25 million, and improving working capital management, yielding savings of $40 million per year. Arendsen holds a degree in Business from Auburn University and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.