Charleston, SC — November 21, 2025
Ventek Solutions, a leading provider of manufacturing engineered shape molded foam components, protective packaging, and multi-material assembly solutions, today announced the appointment of Chris Wrobel as Chief Executive Officer, effective November 17, 2025.
Wrobel brings extensive leadership experience across the packaging sector with a proven record of commercial growth, operational excellence, and successful M&A integrations in private-equity–backed companies.
“Chris is a builder and a scaler, a true transformational leader,” said Matthew Hardt, Board Chair of Ventek Solutions and Managing Director & Operating Partner at Black Diamond Capital Management. “He couples customer-first commercial leadership with rigorous execution. We’re excited to have him lead Ventek Solutions through its next phase of growth.”
“I’m honored to join Ventek,” said Wrobel. “The company’s capabilities, customer relationships and team give us a strong foundation. We’ll focus on elevating service, expanding our solutions and executing with speed and discipline.”
About Chris Wrobel
Wrobel is a transformational packaging executive with significant private-equity experience. He has led multi-site operations, upgraded commercial organizations, and executed multiple acquisitions and integrations. His background spans P&L leadership, pricing, supply chain, and continuous improvement.
About Ventek Solutions
Ventek Solutions is a leading provider of manufacturing engineered shape molded foam components, protective packaging, and multi-material assembly solutions, delivering customized solutions to address complex challenges in product protection, component light-weighting, insulation, and design simplification across a diverse mix of industries. The company partners with customers to deliver application-specific solutions that improve protection, efficiency, and total cost.
About Black Diamond
Black Diamond Capital Management (“BDCM” or “the Firm”) is a privately held alternative investment manager specializing in the global credit markets. The Firm was founded in 1995 and currently manages approximately $11 billion of assets across a complementary, integrated platform of strategies: Closed-Ended Opportunity Funds, Open-Ended Credit Funds, and CLO Funds. The Firm’s Opportunity Fund platform pursues a longstanding investment strategy of investing in middle-market industrial and manufacturing companies in North America and Europe through senior secured debt. BDCM has significant experience executing corporate carve out transactions from public and private companies including acquisitions of businesses from EBSCO Industries, Hexion Inc, Georgia Pacific and Arcosa Inc, among others. BDCM has more than 100 employees, including 45+ investment professionals.
Media Contact:
Bobbie Jo Hemry, Vice President of Human Resources
bobbie.hemry@venteksolutions.com
To learn more about Ventek Solutions, visit: www.venteksolutions.com
