Executive Leaders

Gunner Smith began serving as Chief Executive Officer for Cornerstone Building Brands on Aug. 11.

Prior to joining Cornerstone Building Brands, Mr. Smith served as president of Roofing at Owens Corning, an $11 billion leading building products manufacturer, a position he held since 2018. In this role, he had responsibility for a market-leading roofing business in the United States and Canada focused primarily on roofing shingles and components that go to market through distributors, home centers and lumberyards, as well as the global nonwovens fabric business. He also served as vice president of sales, distribution and home centers and in other positions leading sales, marketing and pricing roles during his 17-year tenure with Owens Corning. Prior to joining Owens Corning, Mr. Smith served as National Sales Manager at PlyGem®, now part of Cornerstone Building Brands.  Earlier in his career, he served in sales management roles for eight years at Elk Corporation. He has a strong track record of delivering growth, executing strategy and building trusted customer relationships in the building products industry.

Mr. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mississippi State University and completed the Executive Program in Strategic Sales Management at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Christian Storch began serving as interim chief financial officer for Cornerstone Building Brands on Feb. 6, 2026.

With 25 years of experience in financial leadership roles, Storch has a strong track record of driving business performance through alignment across operations, finance and other corporate functions.

Prior to joining Cornerstone Building Brands, Storch served as chief financial officer at Altra Industrial Motion Corp for nearly 15 years following a six-year tenure as vice president and chief financial officer at Standex International Corporation, where he also held leadership positions in the treasury and corporate audit and assurance services functions. In addition, Storch served on the board of directors of Standex International from 2004 to 2007. Earlier in his career, he was a divisional financial director and corporate controller at Vossloh AG, a publicly held German transport technology company, and served as audit manager at Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Storch holds a degree in business administration from the University of Passau, Germany.

Lisa Domnisch joined Cornerstone Building Brands as President of our Canadian Business Unit in August 2023. Ms. Domnisch brings nearly 20 years of strategic leadership experience in product development, business planning, sales and marketing, and operational excellence to Cornerstone Building Brands, serving most recently as Global Product Leader for DuPont’s Water & Protection construction business. Prior to this role, Ms. Domnisch held various leadership roles of increasing responsibility at DuPont and built a successful consulting practice accelerating results, building capability and aligning diverse stakeholders in the agriculture and not-for-profit sectors.

Ms. Domnisch studied political science at the University of Western Ontario and received an Honors of Business Administration diploma from the Canadian Institute of Business. A lifelong learner, she has completed Executive Leadership programs from the Columbia Graduate School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Guelph.

Matthew Ackley joined Cornerstone Building Brands as President, Engineered Building Systems on April 12, 2021 and was promoted to President, Metal 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, Siding & Accessories, 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 of 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.

Vishal Singh began serving as President of Windows & Doors for Cornerstone Building Brands on Jan. 19, 2026.

A seasoned business leader, Mr. Singh is known for his results orientation, continuous improvement mindset and focus on building high-performing teams. He has more than two decades of leadership experience in the building products industry and a strong track record of driving growth, operational excellence and digital transformation.

Prior to joining Cornerstone Building Brands, Mr. Singh served as President of BrassCraft, a Masco Corporation company, where he led its global manufacturing and distribution business for rough plumbing products. Prior to BrassCraft, he was President of Architectural Glass at Oldcastle Building Envelope, overseeing a business operating 27 manufacturing facilities. He also served as President of Milgard Windows at Masco, where he strengthened customer relationships across dealers, home centers and builders. Earlier in his career, he spent 14 years with Eaton Corporation, where had roles of increasing responsibility, ultimately serving as VP and GM of its Transportation, Military and Aerospace Division.

Mr. Singh holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Sardar Patel University in India and earned his MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

Susan S. Selle has served as Chief Marketing Officer for Cornerstone Building Brands since November 2018. Before the formation of Cornerstone Building Brands, 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.

Ms. Selle 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.

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.