Paulo Sousa

Paulo Sousa has an Honour’s degree in Management from FEP – Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, and an executive MBA from the Porto Business School.

His career took off in 1994 as an Individual Entrepreneur distributing pet care products until 1999. In parallel, in 1998, he took on the role of Account Manager at Banco Expresso Atlântico which belongs to the BCP Group. In 1999, he joined ‘Efrem Portugal’ as Specialist Channel Salesman & Area Manager, responsible for Mainland Portugal and Northern Spain.  At the beginning of the millennium, between 2001 and 2002, he became Area Manager for Portugal in the Consumer Health Care Division of the German pharmaceutical company ‘Boehringer Ingelheim’.

In May 2002, he joined Colep as a Key Account and Customer Care Manager in the Contract Manufacturing Division. In his almost-20-year journey within the company, Paulo Sousa has held several positions, from Sales Director Americas, to Operations Director of the Consumer Products Division, to Managing Director of the Packaging Division. After Colep split into two separate entities, he took on his current position as CEO of Colep Packaging., in June 2023, he was elected President of Metal Packaging Europe.

Summary

Presentation Title: Metal Packaging Meets Circularity

Paulo Sousa, the President of Metal Packaging Europe will present the ambition of the European industry to innovate for a sustainable packaging future. Rigid metal packaging represents broad range of food and beverage cans, general line, aerosols, and specialty products. The industry is actively developing to meet new challenges, among them climate change and net zero goals, increased competition, new legal requirements on packaging and product safety, changing demographics and more demanding consumers. Paulo will elaborate on the sustainability roadmap and credentials of metal packaging offering circular packaging solutions that are good for business and the environment.