Daniel Fisher

Daniel Fisher serves as Chairman, President, and CEO of Ball Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of aluminum beverage cans, producing over 100 billion cans annually across more than 70 plants worldwide. Ball's customers include virtually every major beverage company — Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, AB InBev, Heineken, and hundreds of others. The company also sold its aerospace division and now focuses entirely on sustainable aluminum packaging. Ball benefits from a powerful sustainability narrative: aluminum cans are infinitely recyclable (unlike plastic bottles, which degrade with each recycling), lightweight for transport, and have one of the highest recycling rates of any packaging material. Consumer and regulatory pressure to reduce single-use plastic is driving a structural shift toward aluminum, particularly in categories like water and wine that were traditionally glass or plastic-dominated. Fisher's key decisions involve production capacity management (the industry overbuilt during a demand surge that subsequently moderated), aluminum input cost management, pricing pass-through mechanisms, geographic expansion in high-growth beverage markets, and innovation in can formats (sleek cans, different sizes) to capture new beverage categories.