The Corporation as a Member of the Community - Steps to Building a Company with Purpose

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Jim Reed serves as president of YKK Corporation of America, the parent company of YKK Corporation’s North and Central America Group. There, he is responsible for YKK’s businesses operating in North America and Central America, which consists of 12 dynamic operating companies spread across five time zones covering Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Central America and Colombia, South America. Since the company’s founding in Tokyo in 1934, YKK has continuously set industry standards for quality, service, value and innovation in the production of fastening products such as zippers, hook & loop fasteners, plastic buckles and notions, webbing, and snaps & buttons, and architectural products such as storefronts, curtain walls, entrances, sun controls, windows and doors.

Before becoming president, Jim served as YKK’s Chief Legal Counsel. Prior to joining YKK, Jim was in-house counsel for Georgia-Pacific, LLC and also served as managing director of intellectual property licensing for BellSouth (and later for AT&T).  He was also an associate at Troutman Sanders LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Jim graduated from the University of Virginia in 1989 and the University of Georgia School of Law in 1995.  He lives in Marietta with his wife, Sheri, and their three children.