Charles "Charlie" Gallagher
Charles “Charlie” Gallagher has more than 45 years of operational experience and has managed more than 20 middle-market merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions, including 15 private buyouts.
Gallagher began his career in 1960 with Owens Corning Fiberglas in Toledo, Ohio. In his 19 years there, he held several senior management positions and is credited with developing sales and distribution strategies and national marketing campaigns that remain significant to Owens Corning today. In 1980, Gallagher became president and CEO of the then Denver-based Susquehanna Corporation, where he successfully executed a dramatic turnaround of this publicly held building products company. He resigned in 1985 to form his first private equity organization.
After acquiring the Milcor Division of Inland Steel in 1985, Gallagher, from 1986 to 1997, was Chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of Applied Industrial Materials Corporation (AIMCOR), a global leader in industrial carbon products, metals, minerals and related services. While leading AIMCOR, Gallagher also led multiple buyouts of new middle-market platform companies (which included Liquid Container, a leading national rigid plastics packaging company that was recently sold to Blackstone/Graham Packaging), as well as subsequent add-on acquisitions. In 1997, he formed the family partnership of Gallagher Enterprises which led to future acquisitions. Gallagher’s string of successful buyouts continues today through Gallagher Industries.
Gallagher has served on numerous boards that include leading universities, hospitals, business organizations and civic institutions.
Gallagher holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Xavier University.
Gallagher began his career in 1960 with Owens Corning Fiberglas in Toledo, Ohio. In his 19 years there, he held several senior management positions and is credited with developing sales and distribution strategies and national marketing campaigns that remain significant to Owens Corning today. In 1980, Gallagher became president and CEO of the then Denver-based Susquehanna Corporation, where he successfully executed a dramatic turnaround of this publicly held building products company. He resigned in 1985 to form his first private equity organization.
After acquiring the Milcor Division of Inland Steel in 1985, Gallagher, from 1986 to 1997, was Chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of Applied Industrial Materials Corporation (AIMCOR), a global leader in industrial carbon products, metals, minerals and related services. While leading AIMCOR, Gallagher also led multiple buyouts of new middle-market platform companies (which included Liquid Container, a leading national rigid plastics packaging company that was recently sold to Blackstone/Graham Packaging), as well as subsequent add-on acquisitions. In 1997, he formed the family partnership of Gallagher Enterprises which led to future acquisitions. Gallagher’s string of successful buyouts continues today through Gallagher Industries.
Gallagher has served on numerous boards that include leading universities, hospitals, business organizations and civic institutions.
Gallagher holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Xavier University.
