UL CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of UL?

The CEO of UL is Jennifer Scanlon.

Q: Who is the founder of UL?

Lisa M. Lambert, William Merrill and Simin Zhou founded UL.

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UL CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Jennifer Scanlon is the UL's CEO. UL has 12,000 employees, of which 51 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The UL executive team is 37% female and 63% male.
62% of the management team is White.
11% of UL management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Jennifer Scanlon

CEO / President

Lisa M. Lambert

Board Member

William Merrill

Founder

Simin Zhou

Founder

Todd Denison

Senior Vice President of Global Regions

Erik Palm

Senior Vice President

Jeremy Choy

Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer

Konrad Pienaar

Senior Vice President

Mark Vonseipler

Vice President

Robert Slone

Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist

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UL founders

Name & TitleBio

Lisa M. Lambert

Board Member

William Merrill

Founder

Simin Zhou

Founder

UL board members

Name & TitleBio

Jennifer Scanlon

CEO / President

Lisa M. Lambert

Board Member

Linda Chapin

EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer

Linda is a student Northwestern University starting in 2018 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer at UL. Linda has worked as Vice President Human Resources at Logica; Vice President Human Resources Building Technologies & Solutions at Johnson Controls; and Director of Human Resources, Asia Pacific Region & Global Financial Services at HP. She attended Southern Illinois University between 1977 and 1981.

James M. Shannon

Board Member

James P. Dollive

Board Member

Marla C. Gottschalk

Board Member

Charles Hooper

Board Member

Diana Coso

Board Member

Frank J. Coyne

Retired Chairman

Friedrich Hecker

Former Chief Executive, Officer (CEO)

UL leadership demographics

UL gender distribution in management team

The UL executive team is 37% female and 63% male.
UL is 37% female and 63% male company-wide.

Male

63%

Company-wide: 63%

Female

37%

Company-wide: 37%

UL executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among UL executive officers is White.
62% of the management team is White.
13% of UL's management is Asian.
11% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
58% of employees are White.
15% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
11% of employees are Asian.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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