BARRY CANIPE

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Barry Canipe is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Bakelite Synthetics and oversees Bakelite’s finance and accounting team as well as setting the strategic direction, priorities, policy and governance for enterprise-level decisions with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

Before joining Bakelite Synthetics, Mr. Canipe served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Serta Simmons Bedding from 2019 to 2021. Mr. Canipe joined Bakelite in 2022, bringing with him 30 years of finance experience including a strong track record of value creation and driving large-scale transformation in both publicly traded and private equity-backed companies across global manufacturing and service businesses.

Mr. Canipe earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

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