Board of Directors

Mr. Christopher has served as Chief Executive Officer since October 2008 and Chairman of the Board of Directors since January 2016.  He joined Mueller Industries in 1992 and previously held various Company and industry leadership roles in sales, manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain management.

Ms. Donovan was an early member, and at the time, one of the few women on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. She subsequently became an independent broker representing major institutional options orders and has been retired from employment for more than five years.

Mr. Drummond, a Certified Public Accountant, has served as a Principal of The Marston Group, PLC, a CPA and advisory firm, since 2013. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Ernst & Young LLP.

Mr. Gladstein served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company from 2013 to 2015, and was previously a director of the Company from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Gladstein is currently an independent investor and consultant. From the beginning of 2000 to August 31, 2004, Mr. Gladstein was a Senior Consultant at Soros Fund Management. He was a partner and Chief Operating Officer at Soros Fund Management from 1985 until his retirement at the end of 1999. During the past five years, Mr. Gladstein also served as a director of Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima, Darien Rowayton Bank and a number of private companies.

For 11 years, Mr. Goldman has served as Chief Executive Officer of TextPower, Inc., which provides software-integrated text messaging alerts to utilities, municipalities and courts. He holds multiple patents for cybersecurity-related authentication technologies and speaks, writes and educates executives about cybersecurity matters. He has assisted Fortune 1000 companies in licensing, developing, building and operating wireless technologies and systems around the world.

Prior to his retirement as an Executive Vice President of the Company in 2014, Mr. Hansen served the Company in a variety of roles, including President – Plumbing Business, President – Manufacturing Operations and Senior Vice President – Strategy and Industry Relations.

Mr. Hermanson has been the principal of Mr. Christmas Incorporated, a wholesale merchandising company, since 1978, and presently serves as its Chairman.

Since 2010, Mr. Herzog has been a principal at Atadex LLC, a firm he co-founded. He co-founded a second firm, Vypin LLC, in 2016. Atadex and Vypin provide advanced technological and data delivery solutions to support the transportation logistics industry.