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brothers probably put in as many hours tutoring their class mates as they did studying for themselves. Elliott and Vincent worked three summers at General Motors and then started full employment with the car maker in January 1989. More than two decades later, the brothers were on the cover of USBE&IT magazine. In the Garland Thompson story, we learned how “two consummate career climbers got to the C-Rank level” in corporate America. After moving on from GM, the brothers tried various postings with progressive responsibility at Lear Corporation, United Technologies Corporation, Visteon Corp., Maytag, and Navistar International. In 2006, as Thomp- son tells us, while returning home from a business trip, Elliott spotted the Leggett & Platt ad for a new executive, and history was made for him, his brother Vincent, and the 150-year old American components and furniture supplier. The Southwest Missouri company that invented the coil-spring mattress and box spring brought on board its first-ever African Ameri- can corporate officers. A week prior to Vincent’s arrival, his brother Elliott signed on as the company’s first president of the Commercial Vehicle Products group, which accounts for about 4 percent of Leggett & Platt’s sales. Vincent signed on
corporate vice president of Engineering and Technology. He has profit and loss responsibility for a $200 million unit that designs and manufactures equipment for the bedding and leisure entertainment business. His group has operations in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Croatia, Italy, China, and Mexico, and serves on the board of directors of Spuhl AG in Wittenbach, Switzerland. Leggett & Platt’s CEO said it was almost a no-brainier to hire both of the Lyons twins. “What I saw was two talented, high-performing executives, and I consider them two of the best hires I ever made.” Looking back over their record of growth, perfor- mance and management skills that moved entire organiza- tions, it’s not hard to see why such a big decision after a cen- tury of no minority access at the highest levels could look so easy today, Thompson observed. While Leggett & Platt. may not be a familiar name to you, chances are you sleep on a bed made with Leggett components - box spring, innerspring, fiber comfort layers; relax in a recliner that has an L&P motion mechanism powering it. Leggett & Platt is one of the world’s largest manufactures of pulled-steel wire and its products are used literally everywhere.
2004 Women of Color Business Person of the Year
CANDACE MATTHEWS Chief Marketing Officer, Amway Candace Matthews leads Amway’s global marketing
strategy. She heads a team focusing on category marketing (including beauty, wellness and homecare), the Amway brand, and consumer and market insights, as well as corporate citizenship and corporate communications. Ms. Matthews joined Amway in 2007. She previously served as president of SoftSheen-Carson, Consumer Products Division of L’OREAL USA, and also held positions as vice president, New Product and Package Innovation, and managing director, Non-Cola Brands, with the Coca-Cola Company. In addition, she held senior marketing positions at the CIBA Vision Corporation; Bausch + Lomb, Oral Care Division; Procter & Gamble, Cosmetics & Fragrance Division; and General Mills, where she began her market- ing career. Ms. Matthews is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, and currently serves on the boards of Cosmetic Executive Women, Fifth Third Bank - Western Michigan, and Figure Skating in Harlem. She is a past member of the board of trustees at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity in Pittsburgh, and previously served on the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. Ms Matthews received a bachelor of science degree in met- allurgical engineering and administrative and management science from Carnegie Mellon University. She also earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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