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Management of Genie Industries, a $2.1 billion division of Terex that produced aerial work platforms. “I loved the equipment, and we made it right in Seattle.”
Now empty-nesters, the Mayers moved to Westchester County in 2011, after she land- ed the Schott job. The couple found a high- rise apartment in White Plains, the first time they haven’t lived in a house. She doesn’t hang out there a lot, as she spends three- quarters of her time on the road, attending board meetings and trade shows, flying to Germany, visiting factories and Schott’s R&D facility in Duryea, Pennsylvania. She wants Schott North America “to apply its techno- logical capability to developing new markets and new products,” most of them top secret: “We have capabilities in glass melting that we should use,” is all she’ll say. And they could do more with lasers.
Though the idealistic young woman who wanted to change the world became a globetrotting corporate executive, her social consciousness has always remained intact. For someone with a passion for manu- facturing, she isn’t much of a materialist. She and her family give each other only handmade gifts at Christmas. One of her few indulgences is getting bumped up to business class. She’s long volunteered for Agros International, an NGO that buys land for impoverished communities in Central America and Mexico. At Moen, she asked her staff to bring home hotel soaps and shampoos so they could be donated to homeless shelters. At Schott, she encourages company outreach to homeless shelters and veterans groups in Elmsford. After retiring from corporate life, she envisions turning full time to helping people in other coun- tries: “I’ve never been to Africa.”
“The thing I’d want to emulate in my own life is her selflessness,” says eldest daughter Kelsi, 26, who is job-hunting in St. Louis. “She’s not someone who thinks about herself and her personal needs beyond the basics. She’s always putting other people before herself.”
One of the appeals of Schott, says Mayer, is that it is owned by a foundation in Germany and thus not beholden to share- holders. “It’s a very different environment than working for a private company. It’s not as cutthroat. It is different in terms of how they value the individual. It comes down to, do they feel respected? Do they feel valued for what they have to contribute?’ Ultimately, I think that’s the value of business.”
Dana White profiled Examiner Media’s publisher and Founder Adam Stone for 914INC. in 2011. After this story on Schott Glass, she will never look through a windshield the same way again.
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