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Federal Signal CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Jennifer L. Sherman is the Federal Signal's CEO. Federal Signal has 3,300 employees, of which 14 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Federal Signal executive team is 38% female and 62% male.
  • 73% of the management team is White.
  • 10% of Federal Signal management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Jennifer L. Sherman

President and CEO

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Jennifer L. Sherman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Signal Corporation. Ms. Sherman has operational responsibility for Federal Signal's domestic and international businesses. Ms. Sherman has worked with the board and executive leadership team to strengthen the Company's strategic focus and growth, promote margin improvements, and achieve record financial results. Ms. Sherman negotiated a pivotal sale of underperforming assets and lowered Company debt levels. Ms. Sherman also maintains operational leadership of the legal, human resources, and government affairs activities for the corporation and its global subsidiaries.

Ms. Sherman serves on the Board of Directors of Franklin Electric. Additionally, she serves as the Vice Chairman of The Community House, a non-profit organization that provides social services for the greater Chicago area and is a member of the Executive Board of the Center for Disability and Elder Law (CDEL), a Chicago-based non-profit organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged citizens obtain legal assistance. CDEL awarded Ms. Sherman with Outstanding Corporate Counsel awards in 2005 and 2006. In 2013, she was selected as one of the "Women Worth Watching" by the Diversity Journal, and in 2014 was presented with a Womanetics' Chicago POW! Award, honoring female leaders of extraordinary purpose and impact.

Ms. Sherman earned both her business degree in finance and a law degree from the University of Michigan. She is also a Fellow of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University's CEO Perspectives Program.

Ian A. Hudson

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Dennis J. Martin

Chairman of The Board

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Eugene Joseph Lowe

Board Member

John L. Workman

Board Member

Brenda L. Reichelderfer

Board Member

Mark D. Weber

Chief Operating Officer & Senior Vice President

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Mark Weber is a Chief Operating Officer at Federal Signal, Board Of Directors at Horizion Global Corporation, and Board Member at THE SUPREME INDUSTRIES LTD and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois. He has worked as General Manager at Elgin Sweeper, VP:Sweeper Products at Federal Signal, and VP:Operations at Elgin Sweeper. Mark studied at Kelley School of Business between 1989 and 1990, Indiana University, and KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT between 2009 and 2009.

Shashank Patel

Board Member

William Forrester Owens

Board Member

Daniel Anthony Dupré

VP

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Name & TitleBio
Jennifer L. Sherman

President and CEO

Jennifer L. Sherman's LinkedIn

Jennifer L. Sherman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Signal Corporation. Ms. Sherman has operational responsibility for Federal Signal's domestic and international businesses. Ms. Sherman has worked with the board and executive leadership team to strengthen the Company's strategic focus and growth, promote margin improvements, and achieve record financial results. Ms. Sherman negotiated a pivotal sale of underperforming assets and lowered Company debt levels. Ms. Sherman also maintains operational leadership of the legal, human resources, and government affairs activities for the corporation and its global subsidiaries.

Ms. Sherman serves on the Board of Directors of Franklin Electric. Additionally, she serves as the Vice Chairman of The Community House, a non-profit organization that provides social services for the greater Chicago area and is a member of the Executive Board of the Center for Disability and Elder Law (CDEL), a Chicago-based non-profit organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged citizens obtain legal assistance. CDEL awarded Ms. Sherman with Outstanding Corporate Counsel awards in 2005 and 2006. In 2013, she was selected as one of the "Women Worth Watching" by the Diversity Journal, and in 2014 was presented with a Womanetics' Chicago POW! Award, honoring female leaders of extraordinary purpose and impact.

Ms. Sherman earned both her business degree in finance and a law degree from the University of Michigan. She is also a Fellow of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University's CEO Perspectives Program.

Dennis J. Martin

Chairman of The Board

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Eugene Joseph Lowe

Board Member

John L. Workman

Board Member

Brenda L. Reichelderfer

Board Member

Shashank Patel

Board Member

William Forrester Owens

Board Member

James Goodwin

Board Member

Federal Signal leadership demographics

Federal Signal gender distribution in management team

  • The Federal Signal executive team is 38% female and 62% male.
  • Federal Signal is 26% female and 74% male company-wide.
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Company-wide: 74%
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Company-wide: 26%

Federal Signal executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Federal Signal executive officers is White.
  • 73% of the management team is White.
  • 11% of Federal Signal's management is Black or African American.
  • 10% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 62% of employees are White.
  • 15% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of employees are Black or African American.
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