Ann Harlan has extensive business and legal experience in consumer products and manufacturing business segments and has a reputation as a trusted advisor in the Boardroom. In her board appointments on both public and private company boards, she has led strategic planning initiatives and c-suite succession planning.

Since 2009, Ann has served as a director of the NYSE listed Gorman Rupp Company (ticker: GRC) where she has been lead director since 2016. Ann chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and serves on the Audit Committee. Gorman Rupp designs and manufactures a broad line of fluid management systems across diversified industries.

Since 2019, Ann has also served as a director of the NYSE listed Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (ticker: CLF) where she sits on the Audit Committee. Cleveland Cliffs, founded in 1847, is among the largest vertically integrated producers of differentiated iron ore and steel in North America.

Her private company board experience includes FlavorX Corporation as well as Eatem Foods Corporation, where she served as a director from 2010 until its purchase by Archer Daniels Midland in 2015. Her advisory work with companies in rapidly changing business segments continued with her role, from 2009 until 2018, as a member of the Advisory Board of Gates Group Capital Partners, an investment partnership providing equity capital in the logistic and transportation industries.

In addition, Ann serves as a Director of University Hospitals Health System, Inc., a large integrated health care system where she chairs the Compensation Committee and serves on the Audit Committee, the Executive Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee.

From 1998 to 2011, Ann was a member of the senior management team at The JM Smucker Company (ticker: SJM), a Fortune 500 Company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Smucker is a manufacturing and marketing company of leading food and pet food brands in North America. As Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Ann served on the Executive Strategy Counsel and was instrumental in the development and implementation of corporate strategy.

Prior to joining Smucker, Ms. Harlan was a partner in a large Midwest law firm where her practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and commercial finance.