Bruce Werner
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Bruce Werner

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Bruce Werner spent the first half of his career at Werner Ladder, with executive responsibilities in all facets of the business. During that time the family completed 6 acquisitions, and sustained 10% annual growth for over a decade. The family later exited the business in a successful LBO. Since then, Bruce has spent the last two decades working with private and family businesses, focusing on governance, strategy, M&A, finance, succession planning and family business issues. He has started and built several businesses in finance, energy and technology, in addition to being an institutional private equity investor. His governance experience includes forming new boards and serving on established boards, both advisory and fiduciary. This includes numerous family business boards. He has performed Audit, Governance and Compensation committee work. In the non-profit world, Mr. Werner has served as Board Chair, and worked on Governance, Nominating, Strategy, Compensation, Finance and Investment committees. An accomplished public speaker, he has connected with business audiences across the country on these same topics, working with Bank of America Private Bank, Vistage, Cavendish Global Forum, National Association of Home Builders, and the Turnaround Management Association. His academic relations include Northwestern’s Kellogg School, Cornell’s Smith Family Business Initiative and Loyola University’s Family Business Center. In addition to numerous webinars and podcasts, he has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Private Company Director, Wealth Management, Estate Planning, Trusts & Estates, and other national publications. Mr. Werner received a B.S Mechanical Engineering/Public Policy from Carnegie-Mellon University. As an IBM Fellow, he graduated from Stanford University with a M.S. Manufacturing Systems Engineering degree. He completed his education at the MIT Sloan School, earning an M.S. Management with a focus on Strategy and Operations.
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