Mike Sullivan

About Mike Sullivan

Mike Sullivan understands and contributes to the dynamics of effective boards. He offers a differentiating board perspective driven by his full-circle experiences as a Board Chair, Independent Director, Family Director, Corporate Secretary, Family Shareholder, and Public and Private C-Level Executive. Mike is an accomplished independent board member and senior executive best known for leading enterprise-wide transformation. Throughout his career he has consistently over-delivered results through high learning agility and driving organizational change at speed. He brings multiple perspectives from his work leading transformation, serving the board as corporate secretary, leading culture and change as a public and private CHRO, and driving growth as the leader of a new product incubator. He has successfully leveraged his breadth of experiences and is now excelling as an independent director for four organizations with major impacts on board leadership, business transformation, succession planning, executive compensation, and corporate governance.During his six-year tenure at publicly traded Post Holdings, Inc.(NYSE: POST), Mike led the enterprise transformation for its largest operating company, Post Consumer Brands. Under Mike’s leadership, the transformation delivered $60M of EBIT contribution while ensuring behavioral change across the most critical enterprise-wide and end-to-end business processes. Mike was also a key executive leader of the integration of private and family-owned MOM Brands ($800M) and Post Cereal ($900M operating company of POST) which significantly over-delivered the synergy target. As Corporate Secretary of MOM Brands, Mike partnered and effectively built governance processes with the Board Chair, the Compensation and Governance Committees, and Shareholders.

Experience

1. Board Chair

   Crescent Electric Supply Company

   May 2020 — Present

   1.5B, private, family-owned electrical products distributor. Previously served as Compensation Committee Chair and on the Governance, Audit and Technology/Cybersecurity Committees

Education

• UMN Carlson School of Management

  MAIR, Human Resources

  1989 — 1993

• University of St. Thomas

  BA, Psychology

  1985 — 1989