Christopher D. Knutson became Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Graco in January 2025. From May 2023 to December 2024 he served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Controller, and he has served as the Company's principal accounting officer since May 2023.
From April 2020 to May 2023 he was Director of Corporate Treasury and Investor Relations, and from 2017 to April 2020 he was Director of Corporate Treasury and Regional Controller, South and Central America. He served as Vice President of Finance from 2016 to 2017 at United Skin Specialists, after which he returned to Graco. From 2010 to 2016 he served in several Controller roles, including in the Applied Fluid Technology Division, Asia Pacific, and Lubrication Equipment Division, and first joined Graco as the Internal Audit Manager from 2008 to 2010. Prior to joining Graco, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for seven years within their audit practice. He joined the Company in 2008.
Mr. Knutson holds Bachelor of Accountancy and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees from the University of North Dakota and a non-active CPA license in the State of North Dakota.