Jun 27, 2014. /Lesprom Network/. The Board of Directors of MeadWestvaco Corporation elected James E. Nevels a director of the company effective June 24, 2014. As a member of the MWV board of directors, Nevels’ duties will include his participation on the Audit and Compensation and Organization Development committees, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Nevels, 62, is chairman of The Swarthmore Group, an investment advisory firm based in Philadelphia that he founded in 1991. He has 30 years of experience in the securities and investment industry, serving from 1984 to 1991 as vice president at Prudential Bache Securities and Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., and since then as founder and chairman of The Swarthmore Group.

He is also currently chairman of the board of directors of The Hershey Company, the $7.1 billion chocolate and confectionery brand owner, and chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

MeadWestvaco Corporation is a global packaging company providing innovative solutions to the world’s most admired brands in the healthcare, beauty and personal care, food, beverage, home and garden, tobacco, and agricultural industries.