technology & manufacturing // MANUFACTURING
A DAWN GROVE Corporate counsel // Karsten Manufacturing Corporation // ping.com
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Grove is corporate counsel for Karsten Manufacturing Corporation, the parent company of PING and related subsidiaries, and has served on the board of directors of Karsten Manufacturing Corporation continuously since 1995. KMC’s main subsidiary, PING, is one of the top three golf equipment brands in the U.S., exports about half of its products outside the U.S. and has earned the most Golf Digest Hot List awards of any golf equipment brand for three straight years (2012, 2013, 2014). Grove serves as chairwoman of the Arizona Manufacturers Council and is the longest serving member of its board of directors. In 2015, she was appointed to the U.S. Manufacturing Council, which directly advises the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and other cabinet members.
B BRUCE HOECHNER President and CEO // Rogers Corporation // rogerscorp.com Hoechner was elected as president and CEO by the board and joined Rogers Corporation on October 3, 2011, at which time he also became a member of the company’s board of directors. Prior to joining Rogers, Hoechner had many years of broad leadership experience across numerous geographies, businesses and functions in the specialty chemicals industry with particularly strong international business expertise. For five years, Hoechner was based in Shanghai, China, first with Rohm and Haas Company, for whom he worked for 28 years, and then moving to Dow Chemical upon its acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2009. While in Shanghai, Hoechner was responsible for a variety of businesses, as president, Asia Pacific Region, Dow Advanced Materials Division with regional revenues of more than $2 billion.
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C KEITH JACKSON President, CEO and director // ON Semiconductor // onsemi.com Jackson was elected as a director of ON Semiconductor Corporation and appointed as president and CEO of ON Semiconductor and Semiconductor Components Industries in November 2002. Jackson has more than 30 years of semiconductor industry experience. Before joining ON Semiconductor, he was with Fairchild from 1998 to 2002, serving as executive vice president and general manager, Analog, Mixed Signal and Configurable Products Group. From 1996 to 1998, Jackson served as president and a member of the board of directors of Tritech Microelectronics in Singapore. Jackson became a National Association of Corporate Directors Board Leadership Fellow, the highest level of credentialing for corporate directors.
D GUILLERMO NOVO President and CEO // Versum Materials // versummaterials.com
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Novo is the president and CEO and a member of its board of directors. In this role, he is focused on setting the strategy and policies of the company, developing leadership and meeting shareholder commitments. Novo had served as executive vice president of Materials Technologies of Air Products since October 2014. Novo joined Air Products in 2012 as senior vice president of Electronics, Performance Materials, Strategy and Technology. Prior to Air Products, Novo was employed by Dow Chemical Company, where he most recently served as group vice president of Dow Coating Materials, a large specialty chemicals business. Novo has 30 years of experience in the specialty materials industry and brings to the board detailed insight into Versum’s customers, markets, operations and strategies.
E RICK SMITH CEO and co-founder // Axon Enterprise // axon.io
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A pioneer of technology with the vision of making the bullet obsolete, Smith founded the original company, TASER, in 1993. As the TASER device became ubiquitous in law enforcement, Smith pushed the company beyond weapons technology and towards a broader purpose of matching technology to public safety needs in order to make the world a safer place. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a garage in Tucson to a NASDAQ-listed global market leader in conducted electrical weapons, body worn cameras and software. Personal strengths: “Tenacity. You have to be willing to fail, get up, fail, and repeat until successful.” Professional advice: “Focus on the mission. Every community needs an effective law enforcement function. You can complain and throw rocks, or get engaged and find solutions.”`