Scott T. Ford

Scott T. Ford is a co-founder of Westrock and has served as Chief Executive Officer of Westrock since 2009. Mr. Ford also co-founded Westrock Group, an investment firm and holder of more than 5% of Westrock’s voting securities, where he has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2013, and Westrock Asset Management, LLC, a global alternative investment firm, where he served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer from 2014 to 2022 and as Chairman since 2022. Mr. Ford also serves as Chief Executive Officer of various subsidiaries of Westrock. Previously, Mr. Ford served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Alltel Corporation, a provider of wireless voice and data communication services, from 2002 to 2009. Prior to that, Mr. Ford served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Alltel Corporation from 1998 to 2002. He has served on the board of directors Agaciro Development Fund, the sovereign wealth fund for the Republic of Rwanda, since 2014, Special Advisor to The Stephens Group, LLC, since 2017, and the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, since 2024. He previously served as a director of AT&T Inc., a telecommunications company and provider of mobile telephone services from 2012 to 2025, Bear State Financial, Inc., a bank holding company, from 2011 to 2018 and a director of Tyson Foods, a company that operates in the food industry, from 2005 to 2007. Mr. Ford holds a B.S.B.A in Finance from the University of Arkansas.

Current Board of Directorships: Director of AT&T Inc., and Chairman of the Agaciro Development Fund (Sovereign Wealth Fund of Rwanda).