From Lab to Market: Unlocking Innovation Through Partnership
A Conversation With Brent Yeagy
Date: November 6
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Convergence Center for Innovation and Collaboration, 101 Foundry Drive
Brent Yeagy, a Purdue alum who has been Wabash CEO since June 2018, is a manufacturing leader with more than 30 years of experience in the automotive and commercial transportation industries.
As president and CEO of Wabash, a publicly traded company and leading provider of transportation and logistics solutions, he is responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction and overseeing its operations across North America.
Before his current appointment, Yeagy served as president and chief operating officer at Wabash from 2016-18.
He joined Lafayette-based Wabash in 2003 and has held a number of positions with increasing responsibility, including vice president of manufacturing, vice president and general manager of commercial trailer products, and senior vice president-group president of Wabash’s commercial trailer products.
Yeagy holds a bachelor’s degree (1995) and master’s degree (1999) from Purdue’s College of Health and Human Sciences with an industry focus on environmental engineering science and safety engineering, and an MBA in business management from Anderson University. He has also attended executive programs at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Navy’s Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and participated in the Navy’s Officer Candidate School. Yeagy serves on the boards for the National Association of Manufacturers and the Transportation and Supply Chain Institute at the University of Denver.
