Harpak-ULMA Appoints New Market Segment Product Manager

Josh Becker will lead the company’s newly launched North American initiative to help bakery and confectionery producers do more and go faster under adverse and rapidly changing conditions.

Morgan Smith
Dec 13th, 2020
Josh Becker Harpak Ulma Market Segment Manager

Harpak-ULMA has hired Josh Becker to serve as market segment product manager, overseeing its new initiative to provide smart, connected operational models that offer bakery and confectionery producers the agility and flexibility they need due to dramatic marketplace upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to joining Harpak-ULMA, Becker served in a variety of senior engineering and leadership roles at Frito Lay, Kraft Foods, Bimbo Bakeries, and, most recently, as operational lead for The Hershey Company’s North American Packaging Systems Engineering Group.


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