Leadership Team

Rose Lee has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Building Brands since September 2021, joining the board of directors at the same time.

Prior to Cornerstone Building Brands, Ms. Lee was President of the DuPont Water & Protection reporting segment where she led a diverse business creating water, shelter and safety solutions for a more sustainable world.

Ms. Lee also previously held senior leadership positions at Saint-Gobain in general management roles serving the construction, transportation, energy and defense sectors, and as Strategy Director and CIO of the North America region. Prior to Saint-Gobain, she held various engineering and management positions at Pratt & Whitney, now part of Raytheon Technologies, and was a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Ms. Lee is an independent board member of Honeywell and a former board member of Crown Holdings. In 2022, Lee was named to the National Association of Manufacturers’ board of directors, where she serves on its Executive Committee. She also serves as the 2023 chair for the Manufacturing Institute’s Women MAKE America initiative. Lee is a member of the Policy Advisory Board for Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and has served as a member of the Economic Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Ms. Lee earned a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from Cornell University, a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jeff Lee has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Cornerstone Building Brands since June 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Lee was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Wilsonart International since 2014. Wilsonart is a global manufacturer and distributor of decorative engineered surfaces like laminate, performance veneer and quartz surfaces for the commercial and residential markets. Before his role at Wilsonart, Mr. Lee was the Executive Vice President and Corporate CFO for Contech. He began his career at Eaton Corporation where he had a twelve year career with various finance and operational roles of increasing responsibility. Mr. Lee holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and an M.B.A from Duke University. He is also a Six Sigma Champion and received Lean Training at the University of Tennessee.

Matthew Ackley joined Cornerstone Building Brands as President, Engineered Building Systems on April 12, 2021 and was promoted to President, Shelter Solutions effective November 11, 2021. He brings with him nearly 20 years of accomplished leadership in the building materials industry. Most recently, Mr. Ackley served as Vice President, Sales for USG Corporation, overseeing its Commercial Ceilings and Corporate Accounts teams, where he led strategic planning, sales execution and revenue and profit growth efforts.

Mr. Ackley spent much of his career at USG Corporation, holding roles of increasing responsibility including: Vice President, Architectural Sales; Area Manager, Central; Sr. Manager, Investor Relations; Category Manager, Interior Walls – L&W Supply and several other roles in sales and operations. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from University of Redlands and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Alena Brenner joined Cornerstone Building Brands as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary on April 5, 2021, assuming the company’s legal, compliance and risk management functions.

Ms. Brenner brings with her more than 20 years of legal experience, most recently serving as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Ryder System, Inc., a transportation and logistics company.

Prior to her work with Ryder, Ms. Brenner was the Director of Commercial Law and M&A at the New York headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev). She previously spent over eight years at the New York City office of the law firm Hunton & Williams (now Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP) working in the Global Capital Markets and M&A group.

Ms. Brenner earned a bachelors degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a juris doctorate from Fordham University School of Law. Ms. Brenner also serves on the board for Teach for America – Miami, a non-profit organization focused on recruiting outstanding and diverse leaders to teach in K-12 schools in low-income communities.

Melissa Jones serves as President, Surface Solutions, having joined Cornerstone Building Brands in July 2022.

Ms. Jones brings more than 20 years of leadership experience and demonstrated success delivering revenue and profit growth through customer-centric organic growth strategies, M&A integration, operational excellence, and commercial excellence in the industrial machinery and electrical manufacturing industries. Most recently, Ms. Jones served as Group President, Commercial Water Solutions at Pentair, a global water treatment and solutions company, where she also held other various roles of increasing responsibility.

Prior to Pentair, Ms. Jones was Director of Product, Channel and Marketing at Generac Power Systems and Director or Marketing at Johnson Controls. She has also worked in corporate marketing functions at  Abbott Laboratories, Milwaukee Tool and Stanley Black & Decker.

Ms. Jones holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from St. Mary’s Honors College of Maryland and an M.B.A from the University of Maryland.

Philip Langlois has served, since August 2019, as President of the Canadian Business Unit for Cornerstone Building Brands. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Langlois was employed by Marvin Windows and Doors of Canada, joining in 2010 as Chief Operating Officer and then as President & Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Mr. Langlois held numerous senior leadership positions in both manufacturing and supply chain roles with Richelieu Hardware, JD Irving and CP Ships, bringing 20 years of operational and change management expertise to Cornerstone Building Brands. Mr. Langlois served as a Naval Officer, graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the Royal Military College in 1992. He also earned an MBA from the University of Montreal – Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales – in 1999.

Colleen Pritchett joined Cornerstone Building Brands as President, U.S. Windows on August 29, 2022, assuming responsibility for the company’s residential windows and doors business.

Ms. Pritchett has over 20 years of global leadership experience with demonstrated success improving operations and expanding product portfolios through innovation and growth strategies in the industrial, electronics and aerospace industries. Most recently, Ms. Pritchett served as President, Americas Aerospace, a division of Hexcel Corporation, where she was responsible for a P&L business valued at more than a billion-dollar P&L, as well as several thousand employees.

Prior to Hexcel, Ms. Pritchett spent 22 years in various roles of increasing responsibility with DuPont, where she gained extensive global and cross-functional leadership experience.

Ms. Pritchett received her Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Penn State University and an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University. She also has leadership training from the Harvard Business School Leadership Program and Women in Governance Program at UCLA.

Susan S. Selle has served as Chief Marketing Officer for Cornerstone Building Brands, the merged NCI Building Systems and Ply Gem Building Products company, since November 2018. Before the merger, Ms. Selle served as Chief Marketing Officer for Ply Gem since July 2014. Before joining Ply Gem, Ms. Selle held senior marketing and brand leadership roles with Jarden Consumer Solutions (formerly Sunbeam Products) from 1998 – 2014. While at Jarden, she led global marketing, customer marketing, advertising strategy, category management, digital & social marketing, shopper marketing and portfolio brand management for leading brands such as Mr. Coffee, Crock-Pot, Oster, Sunbeam, Foodsaver, First Alert, Holmes, Margaritaville Products and Healthometer. Prior to joining Jarden, Ms. Selle was employed by Tyson Foods in Retail Product Marketing and Nestle Foods in Sales and Regional Marketing. She graduated from University of Missouri – Columbia with B.S in Marketing and Management and brings over 30 years of marketing experience with top Fortune 500 companies.

Alan Strassner has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer for Cornerstone Building Brands since 2022.  His responsibilities include strategy, growth ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and integration.   Mr. Strassner previously served as the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for Cornerstone Building Brands since 2018 and the Vice President of Corporate Strategy for NCI Building Systems since 2015. Prior to working at Cornerstone Building Brands, Alan held various corporate finance & strategy roles at a family office and was employed by Ernst & Young from 2006 to 2011. Mr. Strassner holds an MBA from Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business and an MSA/BBA from the Honors College at the University of Houston, Bauer College of Business.

Katy Theroux has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for Cornerstone Building Brands, the merged NCI Building Systems and Ply Gem Building Products company, since November 2018. Before the merger, Ms. Theroux served as the NCI Building Systems Senior Vice President, Marketing and Chief Human Resources Officer and joined NCI in 2014. Before joining NCI, Ms. Theroux was employed by 1WORLDSYNC where she served as Chief Marketing and Administrative Officer from 2012 to 2013 and was responsible for the integration of two multinational technology services companies. Prior to joining 1WORLDSYNC, she served as Senior Vice President, Customer Engagement & Solutions for its parent, GS1 US and 1SYNC from 2007 to 2012. Ms. Theroux also served as its Chief Human Resources Officer from 2006 to 2012. Ms. Theroux served on the board of Peirce College from 2001 until 2015 and was Chairman from 2011 until June 2015. Ms. Theroux has a B.S. from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from Saint Peter’s University.

John N. Wallace has served as Executive Vice President, Operational Excellence, for Cornerstone Building Brands since January 2023. Leading the enterprise-wide Operations Center of Excellence (CoE) team, his responsibilities include Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, Logistics & Transportation, Quality & Continuous Improvement, Business Transformation, Working Capital, Sales and Operations Planning and Environmental, Health & Safety. Mr. Wallace previously served as Senior Vice President of Operations – Shelter Solutions as well as President of our previously owned Coil Coating Business since 2020.

Mr. Wallace has spent 25 years in the manufacturing industry, holding various roles of diverse and increasing responsibility in Integration Management, Quality & Continuous Improvement, Human Resources, Customer Service and as a General Manager. Mr. Wallace earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University.