Our Leadership Team

Ms. Abutaleb Stephenson serves on the Board of Directors for Pentair. Ms. Abutaleb Stephenson has been the Chief Executive Officer of Medical Technology Solutions, LLC, a provider of technology solutions for the healthcare industry, since 2019. From 2013 to 2018, Ms. Abutaleb was the Chief Executive Officer of mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc., an IT outsourcing/ managed services and cloud services provider. From 2006 to 2013, Ms. Abutaleb served as President and Chief Operating Officer of mindSHIFT. In 2012, mindSHIFT was acquired by Best Buy Co., Inc. and then later, in 2014, was acquired by Ricoh Company, Ltd., a leading provider of document management solutions, IT services, printing, digital cameras and industrial systems. Ms. Abutaleb also served as Senior Vice President of Ricoh USA from 2015 to 2017 and Executive Vice President of Ricoh Global Services from 2017 to 2018.Prior to joining mindSHIFT, Ms. Abutaleb served in executive positions at Discovery Communications, Inc. from 2002 to 2005 and MCI WorldCom, Inc. and its predecessors from 1984 to 2002. Ms. Abutaleb serves as a Director of Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc., a community bank.

Ms. Barra serves on the Board of Directors for Pentair. Ms. Barra has been the Executive Vice President, Chief Sales and Services Officer for Sleep Number Corporation, a provider of individualized sleep experiences, since 2020. Since joining Sleep Number in 2013, she has also served as Vice President, Strategy and Consumer Insights from 2013 to 2015, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy and Customer Relationship Officer from 2015 to 2019, and Senior Vice President, Chief Sales, Services and Strategy Officer from 2019 to 2020. Prior to joining Sleep Number, from 2005 to 2012, Ms. Barra held a variety of senior leadership roles in strategy, corporate development and finance for Best Buy Co., Inc. Previously, she also held strategy leadership and corporate finance roles domestically and internationally at Grupo Futuro, Citibank and GE Capital.

Mr. Glenn serves as the Chair of the Compensation Committee for Pentair. Mr. Glenn served as a Senior Advisor to Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm, from 2017 to August 2020. Since 2017, Mr. Glenn also has served on the board of directors of Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink, Inc.), a global communications and information technology services company, including as Chairman of the board of directors since May 2020. In 2019, Mr. Glenn was appointed to the board of directors of Safe Fleet Holdings, LLC, a provider of integrated safety platforms for fleets. From 1998 until his retirement in 2016, Mr. Glenn served as the Executive Vice President-Market Development and Corporate Communications of FedEx Corporation, a global provider of supply chain, transportation, business and related information services. From 2000 to 2016, Mr. Glenn also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of FedEx Corporate Services, responsible for all marketing, sales, customer service and retail operations functions for all FedEx Corporation operating companies, including FedEx Office. Mr. Glenn was formerly a director of Level 3 Communications, Inc. from 2012 to 2017, Deluxe Corporation from 2004 to 2007 and Renasant Corporation from 2008 to 2012.

Mr. Harris serves on the Board of Directors for Pentair. Mr. Harris has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Balchem Corporation, a provider of specialty performance ingredients and products for the food, nutritional, feed, pharmaceutical, medical sterilization and industrial industries, since 2015. Mr. Harris has served as Chairman of Balchem’s board of directors, since 2017. Prior to joining Balchem, Mr. Harris spent 11 years at Ashland, Inc., a global specialty chemical provider in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, adhesives, automotive, construction, energy, food and beverage, personal care, and pharmaceutical. Mr. Harris served in a variety of senior management positions at Ashland, including most recently as Senior Vice President and President, Performance Materials, from 2014 to 2015. Prior to this position, from 2011 to 2014, Mr. Harris served as Senior Vice President and President, Performance Materials & Ashland Supply Chain, and prior to that, Vice President and President, Performance Materials & Ashland Supply Chain. From 1993 to 2004, Mr. Harris served in a variety of senior level roles for FMC Corporation, a global provider of crop-protection products, where he last served as General Manager of the Food Ingredients Business.

Mr. Jones serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Pentair. Since 2008, Mr. Jones has been Senior Advisor to Oak Hill Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm. Mr. Jones was appointed to the board of directors of Checker’s/Rally’s Drive In Restaurants, Inc., a leading national restaurant chain in 2017. From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Jones served on the board of directors of The Hillman Group, a provider of fasteners and hardware items to large North American retailers. From 2016 to 2019, Mr. Jones served on the board of directors of Imagine! Print Solutions, a provider of in-store marketing solutions to leading national retailers, and from 2012 to 2020, Mr. Jones served on the board of directors of Earth Fare, Inc. a leading natural and organic food retailer, all Oak Hill Capital portfolio companies. From 1996 to 2007, Mr. Jones was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Brands, Inc. (formerly Rayovac Corporation), a global consumer product company with major business segments in batteries, lighting, shaving/ grooming, personal care, small appliances, lawn and garden, household insecticides and various pet supply categories. Mr. Jones also served in leadership roles with Spectrum Brands, Rayovac, Thermoscan, The Regina Company, Electrolux Corp and General Electric.

Mr. Knight serves on the Board of Directors for Pentair. Mr. Knight served as the Executive Vice President, Customer Transformation and Business Services of CenterPoint Energy, Inc., an energy delivery company, from 2020 to January 2023. He was the Chief Customer Officer, US Energy and Utilities, of National Grid US, an energy delivery company, from 2019 to August 2020. Mr. Knight served at CenterPoint Energy as Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer, Utility and Commercial Businesses from 2014 to 2019 and Division Vice President, Customer Services from 2009 to 2014. Mr. Knight also previously served in management positions at Ricoh Americas from 2004 to 2009, Reliant retail energy from 2001 to 2004, Allen Knight Inc. from 2000 to 2001 and Verizon from 1992 to 2000.

Mr. Speetzen serves as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee for Pentair. Mr. Speetzen has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Polaris Inc., a global powersports leader with a product line-up that includes side-by-side and all-terrain off-road vehicles, motorcycles, boats, and snowmobiles, since May 2021. Prior to his current role at Polaris, Mr. Speetzen served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from January to May 2021 and Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer from 2015 to 2020. From 2011 to 2015, Mr. Speetzen was Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Xylem Inc., a leading global water technology equipment and service provider. Prior to joining Xylem, Mr. Speetzen served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ITT Fluid and Motion Control from 2009 to 2011, Chief Financial Officer for the StandardAero division of the private equity firm Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Ltd. from 2007 to 2009, and various positions of increasing responsibility in the finance functions at Honeywell International Inc. and General Electric Company.

Mr. Stauch is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pentair plc, having previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Pentair from 2007 to 2018. Prior to joining Pentair, Mr. Stauch served as Chief Financial Officer of the Automation and Control Systems unit of Honeywell International Inc. from 2005 to 2007. Previously, Mr. Stauch served as Chief Financial Officer and Information Technology Director of PerkinElmer Optoelectronics and various executive, investor relations and managerial finance positions within Honeywell and its predecessor, AlliedSignal Inc., from 1994 to 2005. Mr. Stauch serves as a Director of Deluxe Corporation, where he is currently Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. Mr. Stauch holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from Michigan State University.

Ms. Williamson serves as Chair of the Governance Committee for Pentair. Ms. Williamson has over three decades of experience auditing public companies as an employee and partner of Ernst & Young LLP. From 1998 to 2011, Ms. Williamson served Ernst & Young as a Senior Assurance Partner. Ms. Williamson was also Ernst & Young’s Americas Inclusiveness Officer, a member of its Americas Executive Board, which functions as the Board of Directors for Ernst & Young dealing with strategic and operational matters, and a member of the Ernst & Young U.S. Executive Board responsible for partnership matters for the firm. Ms. Williamson serves as a Director of Cricut Inc. Ms. Williamson has held other board positions with XL Group Ltd.  in 2008, of CSRA Inc. from 2015 to 2018, Janus Capital Group Inc. from 2015 to 2017, of Exelis Inc. from 2012 to 2015, and of Annie’s Inc. from 2012 to 2014.