Mr. Howard is an entrepreneur who builds mission-driven businesses. As President & CEO of Sentorum, he leads a company whose products keep first responders, industrial workers, and the communities around them safe every day.
Before Sentorum, Mr. Howard held a range of leadership roles at Madison Industries. Most recently he was President & CEO of Madison Safety, a stand-alone company within Madison Industries, where he tripled the size of the Safety platform behind an innovation-first model. He has led several of these businesses directly for years, giving him firsthand command of the markets they serve. He completed six transactions during that time, including acquisitions and a divestiture, while growing the core brands organically. As much as he invested in products, he invested in people, building entrepreneurial teams that owned their businesses and stayed close to their customers. Earlier in his time at Madison, as Group President of Indoor Air Quality at Filtration Group, he led businesses through the COVID pandemic by focusing on innovation and creating solutions for those who needed them most, growing the value of that business by more than 150 percent over four years.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Howard was CFO of Medline Industries, then the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies in the world. He helped cement a culture of customer centricity and a strong bias for action while nearly doubling the business over five years. He also held P&L responsibility for select international markets and was closely involved in corporate strategy and business development. Before Medline, he spent more than ten years at Baxter International in progressively senior general management and financial leadership roles, including several years outside the United States. He began his career at KPMG.
Mr. Howard graduated from Eastern Illinois University and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a 2022 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and serves on the Board of Directors of Let It Be Us, a nonprofit focused on improving outcomes for children in the foster care system.