​Mary Lee Schneider

Former President and CEO, SG360°

Mary Lee Schneider was elected to the Board of Trustees effective July 2015 representing business and industry. She has served in senior leadership roles in public and private companies across the publishing, printing and educational services industries. Most recently she was the President & Chief Executive Officer of SG360°, a $300 million direct marketing company sold to private equity firm ICV Partners in 2018. 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, Digital Solutions and Chief Technology Officer at RR Donnelley, a $12 billion provider of communication products and services to Fortune 500 companies.  She began her career in publishing in New York city working for Conde Nast Publications, Time Warner., and McGraw Hill’s BusinessWeek magazine (now Bloomberg BusinessWeek).

She currently serves on the boards of the Larry H. Miller Company and PGIM’s Alternative Investments Funds.  On the not-for-profit front, she serves on Penn State University’s Board of Trustees, the Chicago Public Library Foundation and is Chair of Mercy Home for Boys & Girls’ Leader Council.

Mary Lee has an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management,  an MS from Northwestern University in Medical Informatics, a M.S. in Imaging/Printing Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a B.A. (Journalism) from Penn State University. She has earned the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Directorship Certification and was named a “Director to Watch” by Private Company Director Magazine.