Mary Lee Schneider is the lead independent director for the Larry H. Miller Company board of directors. She has served in senior leadership roles in public and private companies across the publishing, graphic communications, educational services and direct marketing industries.
She also currently serves on the board of PGIM’s Alternative Investment Funds and SGS & Co., a portfolio company of HPS Partners. She has previously served on the boards of several other privately held companies. With respect to not-for-profit boards, she serves on Penn State University’s Board of Trustees, Penn State’s Investment Council (which oversees Penn State’s $7 billion endowment), is a life director of the Chicago Public Library Foundation and is past chair of Mercy Home for Boys & Girls’ Leader Council.
Most recently she was the president & chief executive officer of SG360°, a $300 million direct marketing company sold to private equity firm ICV Partners. Prior to her role at SG360°, she was the president & chief executive officer of Follett Corp., a $2.8 billion provider of educational content and services to K-12 schools and colleges/universities. Prior to her election as President & CEO of Follett, Mary Lee was the president of digital solutions and chief technology officer at RR Donnelley, a $12 billion provider of communication products and services to Fortune 500 companies. Prior to her 20 years in various leadership roles at Donnelley, she worked for Conde Nast Publications, Time Warner., and McGraw Hill’s BusinessWeek magazine (now Bloomberg BusinessWeek) in New York City.
Mary Lee has an MBA from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, an M.S. from Northwestern (Medical Informatics), an M.S. (Imaging/Printing Technology) from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a bachelor of arts in journalism from Penn State University. She has earned the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Directorship Certification, was named a “Director to Watch” by Private Company Director Magazine and most recently a Top 100 Director by NACD.
Mary Lee and her husband Ed live in the city of Chicago.
