Can Manufacturers Institute: Senior Vice President of Sustainability

The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) has promoted Scott Breen to senior vice president, effective January 2, 2024.

Breen – described by the US institute as a strong sustainability thought leader and communicator – will lead the industry’s sustainability policy, infrastructure and communications efforts as its senior vice president.

The CMI is the trade association of the metal and composite can manufacturing industry and its suppliers.

Breen started with CMI in July 2019 and has facilitated several initiatives to advance the metal can industry’s sustainability performance. CMI champions the aluminum can as already being the most recycled beverage package in the world with the highest average recycled content, but the industry is investing in Breen to improving those key performance indicators for the US market.

“Scott has elevated the metal can industry’s sustainability profile throughout the value chain,” said CMI Chairman Thomas Fischer, Crown Holdings vice president of investor relations and corporate affairs. “This promotion will increase the significant contribution he makes to our industry and our continued commitment to solidify the metal can as the superior sustainable package.”

Prior to joining CMI, Breen was the associate manager of the sustainability and circular economy program at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. He is also the creator and co-host of the Sustainability Defined podcast. Breen began his career as an attorney-advisor at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Breen graduated magna cum laude from his undergraduate program, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy from Georgetown University, and his joint graduate program, a Juris Doctor and Master of Public Affairs and Social Entrepreneurship Certificate from Indiana University.