2023 Women MAKE Awards Chair

Rose Lee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cornerstone Building Brands

Rose Lee has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Building Brands since September 2021, joining the board of directors at the same time.

Prior to Cornerstone Building Brands, Ms. Lee was President of the DuPont Water & Protection reporting segment where she led a diverse business creating water, shelter and safety solutions for a more sustainable world.

Ms. Lee also previously held senior leadership positions at Saint-Gobain in general management roles serving the construction, transportation, energy and defense sectors, and as Strategy Director and CIO of the North America region. Prior to Saint-Gobain, she held various engineering and management positions at Pratt & Whitney, now part of Raytheon Technologies , and was a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Ms. Lee is an independent board member of Honeywell and a former board member of Crown Holdings. In 2022, Lee was named to the National Association of Manufacturers’ board of directors, where she serves on its Executive Committee. She also serves as the 2023 chair for the Manufacturing Institute’s Women MAKE America initiative. Lee is a member of the Policy Advisory Board for Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and has served as a member of the Economic Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Ms. Lee earned a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from Cornell University, a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.