Joseph Hayek is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Worthington Enterprises.

Hayek became president and CEO on November 1, 2024. Throughout the prior 11 months, Hayek served as executive vice president and chief financial and operations officer of the evolved Company after the December 2023 separation of the Steel Processing business from Worthington Industries.

As vice president and chief financial officer of Worthington Industries from 2018 through 2023, Hayek helped lead the Company through the COVID pandemic to record earnings and oversaw the development and implementation of the Worthington 2024 strategic initiative to separate the organization into two standalone, publicly traded companies: Worthington Enterprises and Worthington Steel. He was instrumental in positioning both companies to capitalize on differentiated growth and value creation strategies.

His previous roles at Worthington include general manager of the oil and gas equipment business (2017-2018) and vice president of mergers & acquisitions and corporate development (2014-2017).
 
Prior to joining Worthington, Hayek was the president of PCM/Sarcom, an IT solutions provider and the largest subsidiary of PCM, Inc. He also served as PCM’s executive vice president of corporate development and investor relations from 2008 to 2012. Prior to PCM, Hayek spent 10 years in investment banking with Raymond James and Wachovia.

Hayek currently serves on the boards of advisors of ODW Logistics Inc. and The Fishel Company, and is a member of the board of Catholic Social Services. He previously served on the board of trustees of the Community Shelter Board. Hayek earned his bachelor’s degree from Miami University and Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he was named a Rollins Scholar.

Jimmy Bowes is president of the Worthington Enterprises Building Products business unit responsible for the growth and profitability of the segment’s portfolio of wholly owned and joint-venture businesses. Bowes became president in December 2023 after a successful five-year tenure as vice president and general manager of North American Building Products. Under his leadership, the segment achieved record profit growth via implementation of Worthington's transformation playbook across operations, supply chain and commercial functions as well as driving new product development investments that positively differentiated the Company and entered it into new markets such as adhesives, foam and telemetry.

Prior to his leadership responsibilities in Building Products, Bowes served the Company in various capacities in the Worthington Cylinders business. As director of Finance and Strategy, he led the due diligence and integration of Amtrol into the organization. This was the largest acquisition in the Company’s history at the time. Bowes led several transformational efforts throughout Worthington Cylinders, including initiatives that produced the development and implementation of the division’s first pricing desk along with many other metrics and functions. He joined the Company in 2009 in corporate accounting before earning increased responsibilities in Finance and Transformation within Worthington Cylinders. Bowes earned his bachelor’s degree of science in business administration from Ohio University.

He is an active member in his community, including shared leadership responsibilities of 3^rd & Goal Foundation that helps support local veterans in need. Bowes resides in Dublin, Ohio, with his wife Mollie and their three children.

Colin Souza serves as vice president and chief financial officer (CFO).  

Souza joined the Company in 2011 and has held numerous finance and strategy roles throughout his tenure. He has successfully contributed to the acceleration of business growth and maximizing shareholder value by leading several acquisitions and divestitures. In 2023, Souza led the project management office for the Worthington 2024 strategic initiative to separate the Steel Processing business and create two standalone, public companies. When the separation completed December 1, 2023, he became vice president of finance with responsibility for the Company’s financial planning and analytics, corporate development and merger and acquisition (M&A) functions. During this time, he led the acquisitions of HALO™-branded pizza ovens, pellet grills and griddles, Hexagon Ragasco composite cylinders used for leisure, household and industrial applications, and the creation of the Sustainable Energy Solutions joint venture with Hexagon Composites. Souza became chief financial officer in November 2024.

Souza earned his bachelor’s degree in finance and economics and master’s degree in business administration from The Ohio State University. He is a designated Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Souza resides in Dublin, Ohio, with his wife Lauren and their three children.

Patrick J. Kennedy serves as the Company’s chief legal and ethics officer.

Kennedy joined Worthington in June 2016, in a management development capacity as a part of the Worthington Industries Rotational Experience and Development program (WIRED). After two years in the program, he joined Worthington’s legal department as corporate counsel. Patrick became vice president - general counsel and secretary of Worthington Industries in January of 2021.

Prior to joining Worthington, he was a partner with the law firm Ice Miller LLP, where he was a member of the firm’s business law group.

Patrick earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and Juris Doctor from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. He resides in Worthington with his wife and three children.

Priya Rao began her tenure as Vice President and Chief Information Officer in December 2023. In this role, she leads Worthington Enterprises’ Data and Information Technology team that is focused on strengthening our cybersecurity posture, expanding digital reach across the enterprise through transformation, automation, analytics, and AI, and upskilling our people for a continuously evolving, highly automated future. 

Rao joined Worthington Industries in 2013 and has held several roles, most recently as senior director of business applications and IT PMO.

Rao earned her master’s degree in business administration from Franklin University in 2012.

Josie Lewis was named Vice President of Human Resources in February 2022.  

In this role, she oversees the Company’s Human Resources department and maintains responsibility for the holistic employee experience, including Worthington Enterprises’ award-winning Best Places to Work culture. Lewis was instrumental throughout the Worthington 2024 strategic initiative that separated Worthington Industries into Worthington Enterprises and Worthington Steel. 

Lewis joined Worthington Industries in 2012 as a senior internal auditor, where she served for two years before being promoted to senior analyst for shared services optimization. In 2015 she was tapped to manage the accounts payable department, leading a team of 21 while overseeing the reorganization of the department to increase accuracy and efficiency. In 2017 she was promoted to senior manager of corporate transformation, establishing a framework for business transformation processes for corporate back-office functions. She was promoted to director of corporate transformation in 2020 leading several large-scale process improvement projects, including the implementation of a new Human Capital Management system.

Steve Denny is vice president of purchasing operations for Worthington Enterprises. He leads the development and execution of global procurement strategies for direct and indirect materials and services spend while helping ensure relationships with suppliers remain mutually beneficial based on quality and service. Denny maintains a focus on operational excellence in the areas of purchasing, transportation, price risk, supplier performance and strategic sourcing.

Denny began his career at Worthington in the purchasing department of a wholly owned subsidiary. Throughout his tenure of more than 34 years, Denny expanded his experience through various roles and responsibilities, including managing the integration of the Company’s purchasing, supply chain and transportation functions to help enhance performance and quality. He also led a strategic initiative to increase Company spending with diverse suppliers.

Denny holds a lifetime certification as Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) through the Institute of Supply Management (ISM). He resides in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife Kathy and enjoys spending time with his two daughters and their families.

Kevin Chan became Controller in December 2023. In this role, Chan oversees the Company’s Accounting and Finance teams. He played a key role in the Worthington 2024 strategic initiative that separated Worthington Industries into Worthington Enterprises and Worthington Steel.

Chan joined Worthington Industries in November 2010, and has served several roles of increasing responsibility within Corporate Finance, most recently as director of financial systems and external reporting. He has more than 20 years of experience, including tenure with one of the Big Four accounting firms.

Chan obtained his master’s degree in accounting from Miami University in 2004.

Principal Committee: Executive Committee

John B. Blystone was named Chairman of the Board in December 2023 as part of the planned succession following the retirement of John P. McConnell. Mr. Blystone has served on the Board since 1997 and was named Lead Director in 2007. He is the retired chairman, president and chief executive officer of SPX Corporation, a global provider of technical products and systems, industrial products and services, flow technology and service solutions. Mr. Blystone joined SPX Corporation in December of 1995.

Following graduation from the University of Pittsburgh with degrees in mathematics and economics, Mr. Blystone joined General Electric (GE). In 1988, he joined the J.I. Case division of Tenneco, Inc. as senior vice president of the components division. Mr. Blystone returned to GE in 1991 as vice president and general manager of GE Superabrasives, a producer and marketer of industrial abrasive products. In 1994, he was named president and CEO of Nuovo Pignone, headquartered in Florence, Italy, when GE acquired the business. In early 1995, he was named to the additional assignment of president and CEO of the Europe Plus Pole of GE Power Systems, Durham, North Carolina.

Joseph Hayek is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Worthington Enterprises.

Hayek became president and CEO on November 1, 2024. Throughout the prior 11 months, Hayek served as executive vice president and chief financial and operations officer of the evolved Company after the December 2023 separation of the Steel Processing business from Worthington Industries.

As vice president and chief financial officer of Worthington Industries from 2018 through 2023, Hayek helped lead the Company through the COVID pandemic to record earnings and oversaw the development and implementation of the Worthington 2024 strategic initiative to separate the organization into two standalone, publicly traded companies: Worthington Enterprises and Worthington Steel. He was instrumental in positioning both companies to capitalize on differentiated growth and value creation strategies.

His previous roles at Worthington include general manager of the oil and gas equipment business (2017-2018) and vice president of mergers & acquisitions and corporate development (2014-2017).
 
Prior to joining Worthington, Hayek was the president of PCM/Sarcom, an IT solutions provider and the largest subsidiary of PCM, Inc. He also served as PCM’s executive vice president of corporate development and investor relations from 2008 to 2012. Prior to PCM, Hayek spent 10 years in investment banking with Raymond James and Wachovia.

Hayek currently serves on the boards of advisors of ODW Logistics Inc. and The Fishel Company, and is a member of the board of Catholic Social Services. He previously served on the board of trustees of the Community Shelter Board. Hayek earned his bachelor’s degree from Miami University and Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he was named a Rollins Scholar.

Director Since: 2010
Principal Committees: Audit Committee (Chair), Executive Committee, Compensation Committee

Kerrii B. Anderson is the former chief executive officer and president of Wendy’s International. Prior to joining Wendy’s in 2000 as the chief financial officer, she was senior vice president and chief financial officer for 14 years for M/I Schottenstein Homes, Inc., a NYSE company that is one of the nation’s leading builders of single-family homes.

Anderson’s financial career includes positions in accounting and investment firms, as well as public companies, including KPMG and RJR Nabisco.

Today, Anderson currently holds Board positions with the following public corporations: Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF), Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LH), The Sherwin-Williams Company (SW) and Worthington Enterprises, Inc. (WOR). She was previously the Chairwoman of the Board of Chiquita Brands International until the acquisition in January 2015 to take the company private by the Cutrale-Safra Group. She served on the Chiquita Board from 2009-2015 in various roles. Previously, she was a member of the board of the P.F. Chang’s China Bistro from October 2009 through June 2012, when it was purchased by a private equity firm. Anderson also serves on the following non-profit entities: Columbus Foundation Finance Committee, Ohio Health Board of Trustees and Finance Committee member, and Elon University Chairman of Board of Trustees and Audit Committee member.

She is a certified public accountant and earned her Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Anderson graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a minor in accounting and economics from Elon University in North Carolina.

Director Since: 2019
Principal Committees: Nominating and Governance Committee (Chair), Audit Committee

David P. Blom is retired president and chief executive officer of OhioHealth, a not-for-profit, healthcare system headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with 29,000 physicians, associates and volunteers and more than $4 billion in net revenue.

Blom holds a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University and received his master's degree in Healthcare Administration from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He joined the OhioHealth family of hospitals and health services in 1983 and since then has held progressive management positions and was instrumental in the development and growth of the OhioHealth system. In March 2002, he was named president and CEO of the system. Prior to that, Blom served as president of OhioHealth's central Ohio hospitals – Riverside Methodist Hospital, Grant Medical Center and Doctors Hospital – while also serving as executive vice president and chief operating officer of OhioHealth.

Blom maintains many professional and community affiliations, is a board member of for-profit and non-profit organizations, and has led numerous civic development activities. He currently is serving on the boards of Methode Electronics, Inc. (MEI), Healthy Roster, Vizient and Kimball Midwest. He previously served on the boards of Dominion Homes and The Columbus Foundation.

Director Since: 2011
Principal Committee: Audit Committee

Mark Davis is a private investor and Co-Chair of Lank Acquisition Corp, which invests in minority and majority positions in public and private companies. Prior to forming Lank, Mr. Davis spent 20 years in a variety of senior investment banking positions. From 1996 to 2003 Mr. Davis was a senior executive at JPMorgan Chase where he began as Head of the Merger and Acquisition Group. He became Head of General Industry Investment Banking in 2000 and also Co-Head of Investment Banking Coverage which comprised all of JP Morgan's corporate clients, and was named Vice Chairman of Investment Banking in 2002.

Previously, Mr. Davis served in various positions with Salomon Brothers, including Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Managing Director in Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance, and Head of the Leveraged Buyout Group. Prior to that time he was Vice President in Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Mr. Davis has served on the Board of Directors of Scott Paper Company, Valassis Industries, Inc. and Manhattanville College, where he was Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Davis holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

Lead Director Since: 1999
Principal Committee: Compensation Committee (Chair), Executive Committee

Michael J. Endres is a partner of Stonehenge Financial Holdings, Inc., a private equity investment firm that he co-founded in August 1999.

Prior to joining Stonehenge, Mr. Endres was vice chairman of Banc One Capital Holdings Corporation and chairman of Banc One Capital Partners. Prior to his tenure at Banc One, he was a principal engaged in investment and merchant banking with Meuse, Rinker, Chapman, Endres & Brooks and a senior vice president and director of Rotan Mosle, Inc. He began his investment-banking career in 1971 at The Ohio Company.

In addition to Worthington Enterprises, Mr. Endres serves as a director and Chairman of Conterra AG since 2014 and Calibre Group LC since 2015. He formerly served as director of Huntington Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBAN), W. W. Williams Company, Tri-W Group (a successor to W. W. Williams), Tim Hortons Inc., and ProCentury Corporation (NASDAQ: PROS). He holds a B.S. degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Director Since: 2023
Principal Committees: Audit Committee, Compensation Committee

Paul Heller retired in March 2024 as senior executive vice president and chief technology and operations officer at Huntington National Bank where he led the bank’s information technology, payments, cyber security, digital, corporate operations and customer contact center initiatives. His financial career began in 1988 as a specialist at Andersen Consulting. Following, Heller was the managing director for the corporate internet group at JP Morgan Chase before joining Huntington in 2012.

Heller is an active member of the central Ohio community, serving as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center of Science and Industry (COSI), an Endowment Board member at Saint Charles Preparatory School and member of the Board of Directors of The Ohio State University’s CampusParc.

Heller earned his bachelor’s degree from Miami University and his master’s degree in business administration (finance) from The Ohio State University Fisher School of Business.

Director Since: 2011
Principal Committees: Compensation Committee, Nominating and Governance Committee

Ozey K. Horton, Jr. is an independent advisor and also serves as director emeritus of McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, from which he retired in February 2011.

Prior to that time, Mr. Horton served as a director in the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company from 1981 through February 2011. Over the years, Mr. Horton has led numerous corporate growth, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and performance improvement initiatives at global clients across a range of industries – especially in the basic industrials space (such as metals and mining; pulp, paper and packaging; chemicals; energy). He has also led several practices within McKinsey & Company: as founder of the global pulp, paper, and packaging practice; co-leader of the global basic materials practice; and most recently as leader of the global operations practice within the energy and materials sector. Prior to McKinsey, Mr. Horton had early career stints in manufacturing, corporate development, and project engineering.

Horton has served as a director of Louisiana-Pacific Corporation since September 2016. In 2018, he became a director of Rubicon Limited, which became ArborGen Holdings in 2019. Mr. Horton serves on the Dabbagh Group Holding Co. Ltd. Advisory Board, and as a member of the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center Advisory Board and formerly served as a member of the Metso Corporation and the Spoleto Festival, U.S.A. boards.

Mr. Horton has extensive experience working in Europe, South America, India and Asia. Mr. Horton earned a bachelor's degree in civil and environmental engineering from Duke University and Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Director Since: 2023
Principal Committee: Executive Committee

John H. McConnell II is chairman of JMAC, Inc., the McConnell family’s private holding company.

McConnell joined Worthington Industries in 2000 and served in several capacities across the company, including corporate communications, transformation and commercial roles. As a transformation analyst, he helped drive continuous improvement efforts across the Worthington Steel Processing business. McConnell left Worthington in 2012 to join the Columbus Blue Jackets, where he focused on marketing, partnership activation and talent scouting, and co-chaired the National Hockey League (NHL) All-Star Events Committee. McConnell also worked for U.S. Congresswoman Deborah Pryce as a constituent office coordinator and for Ohio Senator Kevin Coughlin, including Coughlin’s re-election campaign as a campaign field coordinator.  

McConnell returned to Worthington in 2014 as product manager of life support technology with commercial responsibility for self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) cylinders used in military and aerospace applications, as well as by firefighters and first responders. In 2019, he earned a promotion to business director of North American High Pressure Vessels, which included Type III cylinders for the automotive and aerospace markets. From 2021 – 2023, McConnell served as vice president of global business development, where he led the global sales strategy for the company’s Sustainable Energy Solutions business unit.

McConnell is the grandson of the late John H. McConnell, founder of Worthington Industries and the Columbus Blue Jackets. He has a strong interest in supporting veteran issues and community development, serving on the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation and Cohesion Foundation boards. He has a bachelor’s degree and Master of Business Administration from The Ohio State University and resides in Columbus, Ohio.

Director Since: 2023
Principal Committee: Nominating and Governance Committee

Virgil L. Winland retired from his position as senior vice president of manufacturing at Worthington Industries in 2021 after 50 years of service at the company.

Director Since: 2023
Principal Committee: Nominating and Governance Committee

Billy R. Vickers is president and chief executive officer of Dublin, Ohio-based Modular Assembly Innovations (MAI). One of the largest minority-owned businesses in the country, MAI is the parent company of Great Lakes Assemblies, Gulf Shore Assemblies, Indiana Assemblies and North American Assemblies. These locations span four states, employ approximately 400 associates and generate more than $1.2 billion in revenue.

Vickers holds a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University. He completed the Kellogg Advance Management Education Program at Northwestern University. Vickers began his manufacturing career at Ironton Castings in Ironton, Ohio. He went on to earn various leadership roles and achieve successful entrepreneurial pursuits throughout his more than 35-year career.

In addition to the Worthington Enterprises, Inc. Board of Directors, Vickers also serves on the Board of Directors for the Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation, Fifth Third Bank Advisory Board, A Kid Again National Office and is a member of the Columbus Partnership, the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Columbus Advisory Council.