Board of Directors

Director since 2009

Mr. Adams is our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation.  Mr. Adams joined us in 2004 and has served in various roles, including President and Chief Financial Officer, he became our CEO in 2009. Mr. Adams is also a director and member the audit and compliance committee of Badger Meter, Inc.

Director since 2012

Mr. Bartlett has served the lead director of Zurn Elkay since July 2020. Mr. Bartlett is a retired Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”) partner. Mr. Bartlett joined E&Y in 1972 and worked there until his retirement in 2012, including having served as Managing Partner of E&Y’s Baltimore office and as Senior Client Service Partner for the Mid-Atlantic Region. Mr. Bartlett is a certified public accountant and has extensive experience serving global manufacturers, as well as companies in other industries. Mr. Bartlett also has experience in mergers and acquisitions, SEC rules and regulations, public offerings and financing alternatives. Mr. Bartlett currently serves as a director, chairman of the audit committee and member of the executive compensation and management development committee of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., as a director, chairman of the audit committee and member of the compensation committee of WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corporation (formerly known as WillScot Corporation), and as a director and member of the audit committee of FTI Consulting, Inc.

Financial Expert
Member of the Audit Committee

Director since 2021

Mr. Butler is the retired Executive Director, Connected Vehicles of Ford Motor Company, a designer, manufacturer and servicer of vehicles. He held such position from 2014 until his retirement in 2020. Prior to joining Ford, Mr. Butler held various leadership positions with increasing responsibility at General Motors Company, a designer and manufacturer of vehicles, including Vice President, Marketing and Global Strategy, Cadillac, Chairman and Managing Director, General Motors Egypt and Vice President, OnStar, from 1981 to 2013. Mr. Butler previously served on the boards of the 5G Automotive Association and SmartDeviceLink Consortium (chairman). He currently serves on the board of a private company, INRIX, a mobility data services and software company.

Financial Expert
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Director since 2013

Mr. Christopoul is Founder and Managing Partner of Iviron Capital Partners, a real estate private equity investment firm and was a founding principal of both 54 Madison Partners and Athos Real Estate Partners, both precedent investment funds of Iviron since 2015. He previously served as a Senior Partner and Head of Real Estate Investment, at Cain Hoy Enterprises, LLC, an investment firm launched by Guggenheim Partners. Prior to that time, Mr. Christopoul was a Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group at Guggenheim Partners. Previously, he was a senior advisor at Falconhead Capital, LLC, a boutique private equity firm in New York City, and served as executive chairman of two of Falconhead’s portfolio companies—GPSi Holdings, LLC and Rita’s Water Ice Franchise Company. Mr. Christopoul is also an active venture capital investor through Somerset Shore Associates, Inc., a private investment company.

Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Sustainability Committee

Director Since 2022

Mr. Jahnke is the retired Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elkay Manufacturing Company. Mr. Jahnke joined Elkay in 2007 as President and CEO, positions he held until his retirement in 2019. Following his retirement, he continued to serve as Chairman of Elkay through the time of Elkay’s merger with the Company in 2022. During the pendency of the merger with the Company, he also served as interim President and CEO for a brief period in 2022. Mr. Jahnke was also a director of Elkay from 2008 to 2022. Prior to joining Elkay, Mr. Jahnke served in various roles of increasing responsibility with Newell Brands, a marketer and manufacturer of branded consumer products, including President, Anchor Hocking Specialty Glass, Chief Human Resources Officer, Newell Rubbermaid and Group President, Home & Family Products Group, from 1986 to 2007. Mr. Jahnke serves an advisor to the board of directors of Wahl Clipper Company, a manufacturer of professional and home grooming equipment, and is a board member of Elkay Interior Systems, Inc., and Your 6, both of which are privately owned businesses.

Director since 2016

Mr. Longren is a retired former Chief Technology Officer, President - Off Road, Commercial and Military and Senior Vice President of Polaris Industries, Inc., a designer, engineer and manufacturer of off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles and small vehicles, a position he held from 2015 until 2016. Mr. Longren served in various capacities at Polaris since 2003, including Vice President, Off-Road Vehicles, Vice President, Chief Technical Officer, and Director of Engineering for the ATV Division. Prior to joining Polaris, Mr. Longren was a Vice President in the Weapons Systems Division of Alliant Techsystems and Senior Vice President, Engineering and Marketing at Blount Sporting Equipment Group. He currently serves on the board of three private companies, Horton Worldwide, a provider of premium engine-cooling solutions for OEM applications and the aftermarket, Northern Tool, a supplier and manufacturer of tools and equipment, and United Tactical Systems, an ordnance and accessories manufacturer.

Chair of the Sustainability Committee
Member of the Sustainability Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee

Director since 2023

Ms. McTague has served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Oshkosh Corporation, an industrial technology company and manufacturer that innovates purpose-built vehicles and equipment, from 2021 to 2024. Ms. McTague previously served as vice president of global human resources for Oshkosh’s Access segment from 2015 to 2021. Before joining Oshkosh, Ms. McTague worked with Hershey Foods as a senior director and at GE Water & Process Technologies in several human resources positions of increasing responsibility. Ms. McTague is on the board of directors for the Boys and Girls Club of the Fox Valley, WI.

Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Director since 2015

Mr. Moore has served as a director of: IPS Corporation, a provider of solvent cements and adhesives for residential, commercial and industrial use, as well as plumbing and roofing products, since 2017, and Executive Chairman since 2021; Cypress Performance Group LLC, the parent holding company of Encapsys, LLC and IPS Corporation, since 2017; and CP Atlas Parent Holdings, L.P. (aka American Bath Group), a bathware manufacturer, since 2021. Mr. Moore served as a director of Encapsys, LLC, a provider of custom microencapsulation services for use in the building and construction, paper, bedding, and personal and household care industries, from 2015 until 2021; Culligan International Company, a provider of residential, office, commercial and industrial water treatment products and services, from 2018 until 2021; Industrial Container Services, LLC, a provider of reusable container solutions, from 2017 until 2018; Wastequip, Inc., a leading manufacturer of waste handling and recycling equipment in North America, from 2012 until 2018; and Pro Mach, Inc., a provider of integrated packaging and processing products and solutions, from 2015 until 2018. Mr. Moore previously served in various capacities with Zurn from 2006 to 2012. Prior thereto, Mr. Moore served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Maytag Corporation, a manufacturer of major appliances and household products, and as group chief financial officer and group vice president of finance at Danaher Corporation, a manufacturer of process/environmental controls and tools and components. Mr. Moore began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co., a former accounting firm. 

Financial Expert
Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Sustainability Committee

Director since 2019

Ms. Schooler retired in 2022 as Corporate Vice President, Global Data Center Sales for Intel Corporation (“Intel”), a designer and manufacturer of computing, networking, data storage and communications solutions, a position held since 2018. Since joining Intel in 1989, Ms. Schooler held various leadership positions, including serving as Intel’s Corporate Vice President, Global Internet of Things (“IoT”) Sales and Marketing from 2016 to 2018, Vice President of the IoT Strategy and Technology Office from 2015 to 2016, and as Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Communications and Storage Infrastructure Group prior thereto. Ms. Schooler currently serves as director and member of the compensation and audit committees of ARM Holdings. She is also a board member of privately owned Densify. Ms. Schooler previously served as a director and member of the nominating and governance committee of Cloudera, Inc. (before it went private in 2021).

Member of the Compensation Committee

Director since 2019

Ms. Troy retired as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Wisconsin in December 2024, a position she held since 2009. Prior to joining Children’s Wisconsin, Ms. Troy served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, both in Memphis, Tennessee, and as President of Cook Children’s Medical Center in Ft. Worth, Texas. Additionally, Ms. Troy currently serves on the Advisory Board of QuadMed. Ms. Troy previously served as Chairperson on the National Board of Children’s Hospital Association and as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center Board. 

Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Member of the Sustainability Committee