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Drew Van Pelt

CEO
Plymouth Tube Company
Drew graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2002, with a major in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. After graduation, he went to work for CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada) in Los Angeles and then joined Primus Capital in Cleveland as an investor buying primarily healthcare IT businesses. In 2007, he left Primus to enroll in the Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA in 2009. After graduating, he served as the Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow at Teach for America, a not-for-profit in the education sector, for one year. Subsequently, he ran a startup in the digital marketing sector, Three Ships Media, in Raleigh, NC, as a co-owner. From 2012 to 2018, He served as the CEO of Larson-Juhl, the world’s largest designer, manufacturer, and distributor of custom picture framing products, with 1,300 team members in 16 countries. In January of 2018, he became the CEO of Plymouth Tube Company. He’s watched first his grandfather and then his father lead the company, and he looks forward to supporting the Plymouth Experience that has been the bedrock of its partnership with customers, to living the four pillars of the company’s mission statement, and to learning how the company can support our customers in new and innovative ways.

SESSIONS

Succession as a Team Effort Panelist

Whether the next CEO will be a family or a non-family member, it takes a village to get the new leader up to speed. In addition to the retiring chief executive, those who play important roles include the executive team, the family council and the board. Panelists will discuss the role played by each of these constituencies, and why these roles are important.