Leadership Team

Mr. Krenicki is currently serving as Interim President and CEO of Cornerstone Building Brands. He has served as Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors since 2022 and has been a director since 2018.

Mr. Krenicki joined Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), the private equity firm that acquired Cornerstone Building Brands, in 2013 after a 29-year career at the General Electric Company (GE). He serves as vice chairman and operating partner on CD&R’s Industrials team and also leads the internal processes related to the Firm’s operationally focused value creation, best practice sharing, risk and talent recruitment initiatives. He currently serves as chairman for CD&R portfolio companies Artera Services and as a director of Brand Industrial Services in addition to his roles with Cornerstone Building Brands.

Mr. Krenicki is a former vice chairman of GE and former president and CEO of GE Energy. At GE Energy, his responsibilities included oversight of GE’s $50 billion revenue oil & gas, power & water and energy management businesses, which employed more than 100,000 people in more than 165 countries. Mr. Krenicki held several leadership roles with GE prior to leading GE Energy, including president and CEO of GE Plastics and GE Transportation.

Mr. Krenicki earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut. He received a Master of Science degree in management from Purdue University.

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.

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, 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.

Petar (Pete) Andrich joined Cornerstone Building Brands as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer in July 2023, assuming responsibility for the company’s talent and culture strategy.

Mr. Andrich has nearly 30 years of global leadership experience, serving most recently as Vice President, Human Resources at Calumet Specialty Products, a leading specialty petroleum products company. Prior to Calumet, Mr. Andrich held various roles of increasing responsibility at Amcor, ASR Group, British Petroleum (BP), General Electric (GE) and PPG Industries.

Mr. Andrich holds a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and a master’s degree from the University of West Florida.

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 bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labour 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 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.

Tim has served as a director for Cornerstone Building Brands since November 2018. He currently serves on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. From 2013 through 2024, Mr. O’Brien served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces. Prior to joining Wilsonart, Mr. O’Brien served as Vice President and General Manager of SABIC Innovative Plastic (formerly GE Plastics), responsible for the engineering resins business in the Americas and Europe. Mr. O’Brien began his career at General Electric as a Sales Representative for GE Lighting. Throughout his 24-year career at GE, he also held roles of increasing responsibility in sales, product management and general management, including Vice President of Sales and Distribution Operations for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore, and Senior Vice President for Commercial Finance with GE Capital leading a global computer leasing business. Mr. O’Brien earned his bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University in Massachusetts and his MBA from Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio.

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 the University of Missouri – Columbia with a 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.