Steve Bramlage, Jr.

Biography

 Steve joined Aramark as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) in April 2015. In this role, Steve serves as a member of Aramark’s Executive Leadership Team and is an executive officer of the company. He is responsible for overall leadership of the company’s finance, accounting, tax, treasury, auditing, financial planning, investor relations, information technology and global risk management organizations. Prior to Aramark, Steve served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Owens-Illinois, Inc. (O-I).  During his tenure as CFO, which began in 2012, he led the company’s overall finance and corporate strategy and business development functions.  Before being named CFO, Steve served as president of O-I Oceania and Asia Pacific while based in Melbourne, Australia. In that role, he oversaw 13 plants and 6,000 employees in four countries, as well as joint ventures in Malaysia and Vietnam, representing about $1 billion of O-I’s global sales. He led an extensive restructuring of the Asia Pacific business, resulting in significant improvement in asset utilization, productivity, cost reduction and cash flow generation. Previously, Steve was general manager of O-I New Zealand, where he oversaw the launch of the plant’s third furnace in Auckland. Prior to his operations role, he served as corporate vice president of finance and vice president and CFO for the company’s European operations based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Steve joined O-I in 2006 as treasurer.  Before joining O-I, Steve spent five years at PPG Industries in Pittsburgh, the last three as assistant treasurer for global treasury. He has also worked with Eli Lilly & Company in corporate finance and with Ernst & Young as an auditor.  Steve earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Dayton and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He was formerly a certified public accountant and speaks French.

Research Interest

 His research interests are accounting and business administration.