Though the timing is ideal, there’s not an hour—much less a day—to waste. So emphasizes Jimmie Strong in January while speeding from his Memphis home to Nashville. It’s in Music City where he’s grooming the U.S. affiliate to a Mexican manufacturer of industrial and personal sanitizing solutions and wipes. The need for such wares has […]
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Mark Rosebrock – Jadex Inc.
Quite the interesting scenario that Mark Rosebrock chose in the summer of 2019. Much had happened at Jarden Corp. since he served as associate general counsel from 2007 to 2011, as well as at other affiliated companies through 2017, and returned, in a way, last year. First, Jarden, a consumer products company, was no more, […]
T.J. Mattimore – Vaisala
For a Finnish company that literally sees the sky as its limit, there’s some irony in Vaisala doing so much unseen. Though that doesn’t seem to weigh too heavily on the mind of its president for the U.S. subsidiary and legal boss for the United States, Canada and Mexico. At the very least, T.J. Mattimore […]
Erica Powell Bell – Mobex Global
While growing up in Alabama and learning in her elementary class about the state’s troubled history related to slavery, segregation and civil rights, Erica Powell Bell figured it out. She knew what she wanted to do. “I told myself I wanted to do something that ensured that those types of atrocities, like slavery and Jim […]
Philly Shipyard – Dean Grabelle
In the spring of 2019 operations at the Philly Shipyard were looking bleak. A lack of contracts had idled production and the workforce had been slashed from 1,200 down to around 80, says Dean Grabelle. But Grabelle had hope. After laboring over proposals for months as Philly Shipyard’s senior vice president and general counsel, word […]
Josh Johnson – Primetals Technologies
As if those tariffs hadn’t been complicated enough on their own. So muses the good-natured Josh Johnson four years after he became general counsel for the U.S.-based operations of Primetals Technologies. An international engineering and plant construction company serving the metals industry, it relies on Johnson’s insight on all matters tariff-related—and COVID-19 related. The high […]
Paola Monzon-Cheng – Nitto Americas
So, who expected that in January 2020, buying milk or bread would mean being separated from a cashier by sheets of clear protective film? Or that pizza you ordered would be dropped off outside your door as you waved at the delivery driver? Not Paola Monzon-Cheng, though as head of legal for Nitto Americas, she […]
Jon Howell – Hyperice
OK, he would have preferred cheering on his favorite team, the now curiously named Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim instead of the Los Angeles Dodgers. But Jon Howell still relished being in the select crowd that could witness the World Series in person. A fall classic it was, the Dodgers defeating the Tampa Bay Rays […]
Gonzalo Aguirrebengoa – Komatsu
During his legal career, Gonzalo Aguirrebengoa may not have been to the ends of the earth, but don’t count him out on trying. Born in Argentina, he lived in Chile, Peru and Venezuela before coming to the Chicago area as a legal manager for Komatsu, the Japanese manufacturer of heavy industrial equipment used in construction, […]
Matt Boisen – Highspot
Sometimes on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram some corporate executive, celebrity, athlete or journalist posts a picture of their phone that shows a truly unwieldly number of unread emails. Who are these people, and why are they so busy they can’t read or delete these thousands of messages? Matt Boisen knows how to help them, just […]
