Armstrong World Industries, Inc. from 2010 to 2014. Mr. Maier also served as Senior Advisor of TPG Capital Advisors from 2007 to 2010, and in various senior leadership, strategic, marketing, business development, and engineering roles at Hillenbrand Industries and its subsidiaries Hill-Rom and Batesville Casket Company from 1987 to 2007.
Key Attributes, Experience, and Skills: Mr. Maier has extensive manufacturing, engineering, marketing and operational experience. In addition, Mr. Maier’s experience as a director and chief executive officer of a global and publicly-traded company has provided him with extensive corporate governance, international business, and public company expertise.
Other Directorships Since 2015: Mr. Maier served on Armstrong Flooring’s board of directors from 2016 until 2019.
MEREDITH W. MENDES, age 62
Biography: Ms. Mendes is the Chief Operating Officer and a Principal of Gresham Partners, LLC, an independent investment and wealth management firm. From 2005 to 2020, she served as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Jenner & Block, an international law firm, and beginning in 2015, also served as Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration of Jenner & Block London. From 1999 to 2005, Ms. Mendes was the Executive Vice President, Worldwide Chief Financial Officer, of Edelman, a global communications marketing firm. Prior to 1999, Ms. Mendes served as Chief Financial Officer of Hartford Computer Group, a value added reseller, and Medline Industries, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical products. She was also an investment banker at First Chicago Capital Markets and began her career as a practicing lawyer in finance at Mintz, Levin, Cohen, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo in Boston, Massachusetts. Ms. Mendes is an Illinois licensed CPA and holds an MBA with a finance concentration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an AB (Magna Cum Laude) from Brown University. Ms. Mendes is also a Vice Chair of the Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
Key Attributes, Experience, and Skills: Ms. Mendes is a senior executive leader and public company director with extensive expertise in global finance and accounting, technology and information security, operations, real estate, sales and marketing, and law. Her breadth of experience across multiple industries has given her a deep understanding of finance and accounting, public company management, corporate governance issues, and international business.
Other Directorships since 2015: Ms. Mendes has served since 2018 as an independent director and member of the Audit Committees of Kronos Worldwide, Inc., an NYSE-listed manufacturer of titanium dioxide pigments, and NL Industries, Inc., an NYSE-listed diversified holding company. Ms. Mendes also served from 2016 to 2018 as a director and member of the Audit Committee of Inland Residential Properties Trust, a public non-traded multifamily Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”); and from 2014 to 2016 as a director and member of the Audit Committee (and Compensation Committee in 2015) of Inland Real Estate Corporation, a shopping center REIT listed on the NYSE until it was taken private.
JOSEPH D. RUPP, age 70
Biography: Mr. Rupp is the retired Chairman of the Board of Olin Corporation, an NYSE traded basic materials company concentrated in chemicals and ammunition. Mr. Rupp served as the Chairman of the Board of Olin from May 2016 to April 2017. Prior to May 2016, Mr. Rupp served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Olin since 2005. Prior to his election as Chairman, Mr. Rupp was President and Chief Executive Officer of Olin from 2002 to 2005. Prior to 2002, Mr. Rupp served in various positions with Olin, which he originally joined in 1972. Mr. Rupp holds a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla.
Key Attributes, Experience, and Skills: As the CEO of Olin, Mr. Rupp amassed strong corporate governance expertise, public company management experience, and solid financial acumen. He also brings a wealth of experience in operations management, lean manufacturing processes, and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he has gained extensive public board experience as a director of Olin since 2002 and as a director of Quanex Building Products since 2007.