Denise’s most recent role was Group President, Engineered Solutions Division, Hill & Smith PLC, a FTSE 250 Company with leading positions in the supply of infrastructure products and galvanizing services. With over 35 years of global materials experience, she is an inspirational leader accomplished at developing global teams that deliver prominent results. She is confident in leading from the front while earning strong commitment from team members and colleagues. Denise has a proven record of driving positive and sustainable business transformations across a diverse range of geographies, markets, and industries. She has led teams across five continents, while living primarily in the United States, supplemented with multi-year ex pat assignments in United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Denise has held multiple positions with P&L responsibility, managing the global operations of $1B+ divisions for Dow Corning, Hemlock Semiconductor, Dow Chemical and DuPont while delivering above GDP growth. At Hill & Smith she led a growth portfolio of 8 diverse businesses, across three continents, serving the industrial, infrastructure and construction industries. She has experience leading acquisitions and organic growth strategies, with 4 successful acquisitions successfully completed for the Engineered Solutions Division during her tenure, in parallel with the sponsorship of strategic capital investments for the highest growth companies in her portfolio. Denise was the executive sponsor of the cross-division Innovation and DE&I platforms, setting the stage for additional growth across the full group.

She has a demonstrated ability to foresee events and trends that will affect your business and will identify changes needed to succeed in high growth, volatile and / or disruptive situations. She continues to be passionate about continuing to make a long-lasting institutional and cultural change through diversity and inclusion in business and is an active member of WeQual® – a powerful global network of women leaders.

Denise served on the Bay City Chamber of Commerce while at Dow Corning and has had the opportunity to serve on multiple board positions, including Chairperson of the Hemlock Semiconductor JV Board and Executive Management Representative on the Dow Corning Corporate Board. She has held internal board positions on a diverse range of smaller portfolio companies, including the Creative Composites Group (US), The Paterson Group (US), Lionweld Kennedy Group (UK), Bergen Pipe Supports (India), Bécancour Silicon (Canada), and Dalian DC Silicon (China). She graduated with Highest Distinction from Ferris State University with a B.S. in Biochemistry, where she also received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016. She attended the University of Michigan Graduate School, studying Engineering, has Certificates of Completion in Corporate Finance from London Business School and Advanced Strategic Management from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.