Charmaine Riggins is a seasoned C-suite executive and board director with 30 years of extensive cross-industry leadership experience. She has led global organizations in technology, industrial manufacturing, finance, marketing, sales, operations, strategy, human resources, and compliance, with a strong focus on transformation and integration. She served in an executive leadership role at Vontier, a publicly traded global industrial technology firm, where she propelled Vontier’s operating companies toward peak performance and inclusion through the deep implementation of transformative processes. 

She served as Chief Executive Officer of Loparex, a global release liner company operating in five countries, and before that, she was their Chief Talent and Culture Officer. Her previous roles and achievements include managing 24 complex workstreams and guiding the integration of over 3,000 team members as Integration Leader for Parker Hannifin’s third-largest acquisition in history. Charmaine also held the position of President for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at LORD Corporation, where she significantly improved revenue and profit while overseeing an aerospace acquisition. 

She holds a Master of Business Administration in Innovation and Supply Chain Management from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University, and she completed executive education in Advanced Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

John Michael Harlow

Founder

John Michael is a successful executive and one of Harbright’s three founding partners. John Michael holds both JD (LSU) and MBA (Duke) degrees. As Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel, he helped build Affordable Care from 65 dental practices in 16 states to 175 offices in 38 states with 1,400 total staff. Affordable Care exited to private equity in 2011. John Michael is Harbright’s managing partner and conducts the firm’s legal and regulatory affairs.

John Michael has raised three wonderful daughters with his wife, Donna. They reside in Clayton, NC.

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