From packaging coatings to architectural glass, Don Nolan has spent his career in the materials behind everyday life. After twelve years on Apogee’s board, he took the chief executive’s chair - and a more direct share of the consequences.
A price sticker once told you what something cost. Avery Dennison is teaching its descendants to tell businesses where things are, where they came from, and what needs to happen next.

A career that ran through beer, apparel and three continents brought Deon Stander to the top of Avery Dennison. Now he wants the things we buy to carry a digital life of their own.
A price tag is a tiny piece of retail infrastructure. Vestcom connects the data, the store team and the brand message behind it - and now runs that connection across paper and digital displays.
Kenneth Lee is the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, and Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration, at Southern New Hampshire University, one of the largest nonprofit providers of online higher education in the United States. Since 2018 he has steered the money behind a 16,000-employee institution that turned a small regional college into a national online powerhouse, overseeing finance, accounting, financial planning, treasury, tax, internal controls, procurement, and the campus and facilities themselves. A two-time Harvard graduate and former A.T. Kearney partner, Lee spent seventeen years in consulting and senior corporate roles before deciding the most interesting balance sheets were the ones attached to a mission.