Ball President and CEO Dan Fisher is stepping down, the Colorado-based aluminum cans maker announced Monday. Ronald Lewis, who was Ball’s chief supply chain and operations officer, is the new CEO, effective immediately.
Fisher had been with the company since 2010, becoming president in 2021 and CEO in 2022. “The departure is not related to any disagreement with the company,” Ball stated in its announcement.
During Fisher’s tenure, Ball streamlined its aluminum cans focus, divesting its aerospace arm in 2024 for $5.6 billion and spinning out its aluminum cups business this year. Less than a week ago, Fisher helmed the company’s third quarter earnings call, when he discussed how the company was managing through tariffs and plans to expand capacity.
Fisher said that in spite of “external challenges,” the company anticipated 2025 global volume growth would exceed its long-term 2% to 3% range.
Asked by an analyst about what worried him the most going into next year, Fisher said, “Little worries me at this point.”
“I say this with the greatest of respect for the team that I am managing and working with. We have hit a number of outsized challenges here over the last three or four years that really no one in our industry has had to deal with,” he said, alluding to examples including divesting its business in Russia and dealing with ripple effects from a Bud Light boycott. “The team has masterfully gone through that, and we've stood up a new operating model, and not to mention what's happened here recently with the trade challenges.”
Continuing on the topic of navigating those trade challenges, Fisher said on the call, “Certainly, five 80-year-olds controlling the majority of the largest economies in the world and what they want to do tomorrow ... I can't spend a whole lot of time deliberating that and what the ‘what-ifs’ are.” Instead, he said he was focusing on “trusting and leaning in on our team, making sure that they have the energy, and they believe we're winning and that we have a winning formula — that's where I'm spending the most of my time.”
Fisher closed the call alluding to sharing upcoming full-year results and 2026 plans. He had also been scheduled to speak at Baird’s Global Industrial Conference this week.
New CEO Lewis has held various roles in beverage packaging at Ball since joining the company in 2019, preceded by supply chain and procurement roles in the Coca-Cola network.
“Looking ahead, we are confident that Ron is the right leader to advance Ball's strategy, and strengthen our culture and market leadership,” Ball’s newly elected board chair Stuart Taylor II said in a statement.
Ball also formally announced Daniel Rabbitt as its CFO. Rabbitt had been serving as interim CFO since May when Howard Yu, who was in the role for under two years, stepped down. Rabbitt has held various leadership positions at Ball since joining the company in 2004.
