OBVIUS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Residential Business Unit at Leviton
- Executive Vice President and General Manager, Residential
- Vice President and General Manager of Leviton Integrated Networks
Bob Becker is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Residential business unit at Leviton. Bob is responsible for a diverse portfolio of global products focused on the residential market, including personal protection, wiring devices, controls, load centers, and smart products. His responsibilities also include overseeing manufacturing operations across the globe, Leviton's Corporate Codes & Standards Group, and Test & Quality Labs in Melville, NY. Throughout his tenure at Leviton, Bob has helped grow the revenue and profitability of the business through innovation and market share gains.
Bob joined Leviton in 2003 as Vice President and General Manager of Leviton Integrated Networks and Controls and is credited with consolidating the company's residential lighting control and structured cabling businesses. He was promoted to the position of Vice President and General Manager of the company's new residential business unit in 2006. Bob joined Leviton from PRTM, where he was a principal for five years. Prior to PRTM, he held positions in engineering, product management, and business development at Duracell, Alcan, Texas Instruments, and SpecTran Corporation.
Bob has served on NEMA's (National Electrical Manufacturers Association's) Lighting Board and the Board of Directors of CABA (Continental Automated Building Association), the Z-Wave Alliance, and Dedicated Devices, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, a Master of Science in Material Science and Engineering from Rutgers University, and an MBA from Northeastern University.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Chairman of the Board of Directors at Leviton
Don Hendler is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Leviton. Don has been with Leviton since 1967. Under Don's leadership, Leviton has grown to become one of North America's largest manufacturers of electrical and electronic wiring devices, data connectivity, energy management systems, and lighting.
During his 50-plus years at Leviton, Don has served in various roles. He was appointed President of Leviton in 2005, and in 2007 was named Chief Executive Officer. Don is only the third person to hold the title of President since the company's inception in 1906.
Under Don's guidance, Leviton has significantly expanded the breadth and depth of its product and service offerings, venturing into emerging growth and global markets such as the network solutions sector, residential structured cabling, whole-house automation, lighting, lighting management systems, energy management and metering. In 2021, he stepped down from his position as CEO and assumed his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Don is a recipient of the Corporate Leadership Award from the American Heart Association. Throughout his career in the industry, Don has served on the Education Foundation for the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED), the Advisory Committees of both the IMARK Group and Affiliated Distributors (AD), as well as the Chairman of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, a standards body and trade association headquartered in Washington, DC. He was the 2021 recipient of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) Bernard Falk Award, in recognition of outstanding achievement in technology, management, marketing, international trade, education, public affairs, or any other field important to the electro industry. Don holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Franklin and Marshall College.
Our customers demand the best quality and on time delivery every day. That is a huge challenge. However, I believe that there is no better way to exceed expectations than to embrace these challenges. We collaborate and work together as a team to reach our goals. We drive continuous improvement to create problem solving solutions, always challenging our team to think outside the box.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Human Resources
- Corporate Vice President of Human Resources at Leviton
- Leviton in 2000 As a Benefits Director
Fran Ruderman is the Corporate Vice President of Human Resources at Leviton. She is responsible for leading human resource initiatives throughout the organization, including talent management, learning and development, compensation and benefits and employee engagement. Her approach to leading is highly driven by effective, open communication and delivery to all employee levels within the Leviton organization. Fran's objective has always been to build awareness and engagement by providing employees with information and supporting incentive-motivated human resources programs. Her approach is well-rounded and holistic in nature, applying a focus on total rewards.
Fran joined Leviton in 2000 as a Benefits Director. In 2009 she was promoted to Senior Director, Benefits and Compensation, and then in 2011 to her current position. Fran currently has more than 25 years of experience in the human resources field.
Fran is an invited speaker and panelist within the HR arena, a two-time award recipient of the Long Island Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business and was named the Benefits Manager of the Year by Business Insurance News, a national publication.
Fran is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) where she completed 320 hours of coach training, she holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Bernard M. Baruch College and an MBA from Adelphi University, both majoring in Marketing Management.
Job Titles:
- Leviton Canada As Vice President, Distribution Sales
- President and Chief Operating Officer of Leviton Canada
Jason Prevost is the President and COO of Leviton Canada and is a member of Leviton's executive management team. Appointed in January 2020, he provides full-scope strategic and operational leadership and is responsible for accelerating growth and profitability for Leviton Canada. Jason's first challenge was to deliver sales and profitability growth amidst a global pandemic. Despite this challenge, Jason led the Canadian team to success two years in a row.
Before the most recent expansion of his responsibilities, Jason joined Leviton Canada as Vice President, Distribution Sales in 2019. During his brief time in this role, he restructured the marketing team to be more efficient and responsive to the changing market and implemented a detailed and structured strategic planning process for the whole company. Before joining Leviton Canada, Jason was the Executive Vice-President of Standard Products Inc., a Canadian-based lighting manufacturer, serving his 15 year career there in progressive roles, including product development, quality management, and marketing and strategic planning.
Jason is actively involved in the Canadian electrical industry, through the Electro-Federation Canada (EFC) and sits on EFC's Board of Directors, as well as their National Advisory Council (NAC). He is also the founder of EFC's Young Professional Network (YPN), which seeks to understand and address the needs of future generation industry members. Jason holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from Concordia University.
Job Titles:
- Associate Engineer, Electrical
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Board Member of the Long Island Association
- Chief Financial Officer at Leviton
Lucy Guilherme is the Chief Financial Officer at Leviton. Lucy's primary responsibility as CFO is the planning, implementation, and management of all finance activities at Leviton, including business planning, reporting, pricing, budgeting, risk management, tax, and acquisition due diligence. Lucy is also a member of the Leviton Board and has played an integral role in the implementation of Hyperion, transitioning the reporting from a US centric focus to a global consolidated basis, and more recently improving the pricing process and analysis capabilities.
Before being named CFO, Lucy began her career at Leviton in April 2010 as Corporate Controller. After two years, she was promoted to Vice President, Finance, and in 2021 she was named Leviton's CFO. Prior to joining Leviton, Lucy worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers for eight years as a manager serving some of Long Island's largest privately held companies, including Leviton.
Lucy serves as a board member of the Long Island Association (LIA). In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Lucy holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Long Island University, C.W. Post.
Job Titles:
- General Counsel
- General Counsel at Leviton
Meir Blonder is the General Counsel at Leviton. Meir is responsible for all Leviton legal matters and works closely with executives across all of Leviton's business units and functional departments globally. Meir is a member of the company's Cybersecurity Committee and is an active participant in the company's Executive Retirement Committee. While at Leviton, Meir has assembled a team of Intellectual Property (IP) attorneys focused on IP clearance, procurement, and enforcement. When Meir was named as General Counsel, the legal function at Leviton grew into a multi-functional department with responsibility for commercial transactions, M&A, real estate, ERISA, commercial disputes, and labor and employment.
Meir joined Leviton in 2006 as its first in-house attorney focusing on intellectual property, and then became General Counsel in 2014. Prior to joining Leviton, Meir was most recently a patent litigator at the New York office of Skadden Arps. Meir started his career at Lieberman & Nowak, before moving to Sidley Austin and later Pryor Cashman.
Meir received his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Hofstra University.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice - President
- Executive Vice - President and General Manager for Our Commercial & Industrial
- Executive Vice President and General Manager, Commercial & Industrial
Michael Mattei, Executive Vice-President and General Manager for our Commercial & Industrial business unit, joined Leviton in 2004. For the past 14 years, Mike has inspired the C&I team with his passion and energy, delivering consistent growth and new product innovations each year. He manages three factories in Chihuahua, Mexico, which manufacture products for all of Leviton. With a focus on collaboration, productivity & mutual respect, he is responsible for the engineering, product management, quality and marketing, focused on commercial and industrial electrical solutions. He also leads product development of our award winning Inform technology, which moved Leviton solutions into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Prior to running our C&I team, Mike was a fiber business development director in our Network Solutions group. He had spent over 20 years in the fiber optics field building a business from scratch. The acquisition of his New York based business in 2004 is what brought him to Leviton.
Michael has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a master's degree in technology management from New York University. He is born and raised on Long Island, New York. A die-hard Yankees and Islanders fan, avid Arsenal soccer fan, enjoys family, cooking, skiing and travel.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing
- Senior Vice President of Global Distribution Sales and Marketing
- Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing
Randy Mortensen is the Senior Vice President of Global Distribution Sales and Marketing at Leviton. He is responsible for leading the strategy and growth of the company's global Distribution Channel, which includes the eBusiness channel.
Randy brings over 25 years of experience in the electrical and network solutions industry from a variety of global senior commercial roles. Previous to Leviton, he held several senior executive positions at Anixter International where he was responsible for technology strategy, global marketing solutions, network solutions, marketing, and supplier relations. Before Anixter, Randy was the President of the Premise Networks Group at Molex for the Americas and EMEA. At Molex, he had P&L responsibility for manufacturing, product development, sales, and marketing. He also served at Panduit in several roles including Vice President of Data Communication Sales, Vice President of Global Channel Development, and Managing Director of EMEA.
Randy is also a Registered Communications Distribution Designer with BICSI and received the Distinguished Career Award in 2020 from the Wire and Cable Manufacturers Alliance. He graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and later received his MBA from Loyola University Chicago.
My favorite responsibility at Leviton is to work on the development of new products. Getting the chance to see that the products I've worked on since conceptualization are now on the shelves at Home Depot is a really rewarding feeling. This is why my design contributions for new products is what I like the most about what I do at Leviton.
Leviton's brand behaviors are truly the morals of the engineering world. I don't see our brand behaviors as a Leviton only philosophy, but the behaviors that a good engineer ought to be doing. At Leviton, asking questions, embracing challenges, seeking different perspectives and anticipating future challenges and opportunities is what I believe makes a good engineer.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President / General Manager, Lighting & Controls
- Executive Vice President and General Manager of Leviton 's Lighting & Controls
- Executive Vice President and General Manager, Lighting & Controls
Richie Westfall is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Leviton's Lighting & Controls business unit. He has led the acquisition and integration of Leviton's five lighting brands, establishing Leviton as a presence in the lighting industry. Richie's goal is to strengthen each individual lighting brand with innovative products, creative business opportunities, and exceptional customer support.
In his 40-years plus at Leviton, Richie has held numerous positions, starting in operations at Leviton's founding Brooklyn facility, to key management positions throughout the company and across the country. In 1992 he relocated to El Paso, Texas where he was instrumental in establishing Leviton's operations from the ground up. He then moved to Austin, Texas to run the operations of our very first lighting controls acquisition, Macro Electronics. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2000 to integrate the entire Macro operation into the acquired NSI/Colortran company which formed Leviton's Lighting Controls Division. Since that time, he has led the acquisition and integration of numerous other companies creating our lighting, metering and verification, and Smart Home businesses.
Richie is active in industry and trade organizations, advancing the role of lighting and controls in energy conservation, wellness, and sustainability.
Job Titles:
- Leviton As an Account Representative
- Vice President of Retail Sales and Marketing at Leviton
- Vice President, Retail Sales and Marketing
Ron Ridenour is the Vice President of Retail Sales and Marketing at Leviton. In this capacity he oversees all strategic initiatives for the US Retail Sales and Marketing teams. Ron has played a key role in contributing to the company's continued growth across the retail channel and has demonstrated his leadership abilities and unique sales expertise. With a deep commitment to providing best-in-class customer experience and a keen sense for identifying opportunities for innovation, he has built trusting relationships with clients to help address their most complex needs. His broad experience in optimizing both organizational efficiency and effectiveness enables him to deliver sustainable value across customer verticals.
Ron joined Leviton as an Account Representative in 2006, and since then, has had extensive experience in the retail channel and the home improvement industry. He has demonstrated his sales leadership and expertise having served as Director of Sales for Retail and Director of Sales for The Home Depot. Prior to his time at Leviton, Ron spent more than a decade in sales and management roles, honing his organizational management and strategic growth skills.
Ron started his career at Sherwin-Williams, then went on to work as a Sales Manager for both Duron Paints and Closet Works.
Ron holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Business Administration from the University of Northern Colorado.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Network Solutions Business Unit at Leviton
- Executive Vice President and General Manager, Network Solutions and Chief Sustainability Officer
Ross Goldman is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Network Solutions business unit at Leviton. The division was founded in 1985 and provides high speed networking infrastructure for commercial and residential networks globally. Ross has led multiple acquisitions for the business unit, including the acquisitions of Brand-Rex and Berk-Tek. He also serves as Leviton's Chief Sustainability Officer, leading the foundation of Leviton's sustainability strategy and program across all operations and businesses globally, which aims to reduce the company's impact on the environment.
Ross joined Leviton in 2005 with global responsibility for the datacom business and has led the growth of the business, ranging from two acquisitions to product innovation, as well as overall profit and loss leadership. Prior to Leviton, he held key positions in general management, product development, product management, manufacturing, applications engineering, and development engineering at GE Lighting, GE Engines Raychem, PRTM, and IDEXX Laboratories.
Ross holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer, Information Technology
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Supply Chain