Roger A. Cregg

Roger A. Cregg was appointed senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer of The ServiceMaster Company in August 2011.

Cregg brings a wealth of experience in guiding financial operations of growth-oriented companies in the private and public sectors. Most recently, Roger served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of PulteGroup, Inc., the publicly-owned parent company of Pulte Homes, Inc., one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, based in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. During his 13-year tenure at Pulte, Roger helped the company grow from $2 billion to a peak of more than $15 billion in annual revenues and helped steer the company through the challenges of the U.S. housing market decline.

In addition to his financial role at Pulte, Cregg was also responsible for information technology, international operations and mortgage and title operations.

Prior to joining Pulte, Cregg served as executive vice president and CFO at Zenith Electronics, a publicly traded company that was eventually sold to LG Group in 1999. He previously spent six years as vice president and chief financial officer of Sweetheart Cup Company, Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of specialty containers and paper goods with 19 plants and warehousing facilities across the United States and Canada. He also worked as a regional vice president at Zellerbach, a global division of paper manufacturer MeadWestvaco Corp.

Cregg began his career at New York-based Continental Can Company, Inc., working in a variety of accounting, and finance and administration roles, eventually becoming general manager of finance for the company’s Bondware Division, a paper and plastic manufacturing subsidiary in Illinois.

Cregg graduated Northeastern University in Boston, with a bachelor of science degree in accounting. He earned his master’s degree in management from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Comerica Inc., a commercial bank holding company, and has served as the former chairman and member of the board of directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Detroit branch.

He was named public company CFO of the Year by Crain’s Detroit Business in 2010.