Specright Unpacked: Breaking Down Sustainability, Spec by Spec

Grace is a Michigan State University graduate with a degree in Packaging Engineering. She also earned minors in both Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Business. Grace completed a packaging internship with Church & Dwight working on their liquid laundry detergent team while attending school. Following graduation, Grace worked as a packaging engineer at PurposeBuilt Brands.

Cory has been in this industry for 2.5 decades, and has been focused on sustainable packaging and helping companies be more sustainable with their packaging. Working in a Weyerhaeuser corrugated production facility to pay his way through college helped Cory understand how corrugated is made and how it can be more efficient and sustainable. He's married to an amazing wife and they are so happy to have two wonderful kids. As the host of Sustainable Packaging Podcast, he's learned so much about new sustainable products that are coming out to the market soon and he's seen how urgent this issue of change is for our environment.

Katie Exum is a Product Manager at Specright, the leader in Specification Data Management. Katie has a background in packaging engineering, where she worked in the food & beverage industry, followed by consumer electronics at Amazon. She pivoted to working in data management at Specright, where she added experience in customer onboarding, then strategic partnerships, before transitioning into product management. Across all of her roles, Katie’s passion for sustainability has been an incorporated into her work.