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Innventure Announces Appointment of Dr. Bill Grieco as CEO following Retirement of Current CEO Bill Haskell
Leadership transition to be completed by October 1, 2026ORLANDO, Fla., June 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innventure, Inc. (NASDAQ: INV), an industrial growth conglomerate, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Bill Grieco as Innventure’s next Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2026. Dr. Grieco will succeed Bill Haskell, who is retiring after a distinguished career spanning more than 45 years – the last six of which have been as Innventure’s CEO. Mr. Haskell wil
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Leadership transition to be completed by October 1, 2026 ORLANDO, Fla., June 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innventure, Inc. (NASDAQ: INV), an industrial growth conglomerate, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Bill Grieco as Innventure's next Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2026. Dr. Grieco will succeed Bill Haskell, who is retiring after a distinguished career spanning more than 45 years – the last six of which have been as Innventure's CEO. Mr. Haskell will work closely with Dr. Grieco to support a seamless transition over the next three months. The appointment follows a comprehensive succession planning and search process led by a subcommittee of Innventure's Board, conducted with the assistance of a leading executive search firm that evaluated both internal and external candidates. "On behalf of the Board, I want to thank Bill Haskell for his leadership and dedication in building Innventure into the platform it is today, and we wish him all the best in his well-earned retirement," said Mike Otworth, Innventure's Executive Chairman. "As we enter our next phase of growth, we are excited to welcome Bill Grieco as Chief Executive Officer. Bill is already focused on developing an aggressive first 100 days plan for milestone execution to facilitate Innventure finishing the year strongly. I'm confident that Innventure stakeholders will be pleased by Bill's transparency and proactive communication to our shareholders and business partners." Dr. Grieco currently serves as the founding Chief Executive Officer of Refinity, one of Innventure's operating companies and as board member of Refinity and Accelsius. From 2022 to 2024, he served as Innventure's Chief Technology Officer. Prior to Innventure, Dr. Grieco was the CEO of The RAPID Manufacturing Institute® and led R&D for the $3 billion Building Materials Group at Owens Corning. He brings a long history of working alongside multinational corporations to bring differentiated technologies to commercial scale, together with the operating discipline of having led a company through its build-and-scale phase. Dr. Grieco earned a PhD and master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a bachelor's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in Chemical Engineering. "I share the Board's confidence that Bill Grieco is the right leader for Innvent...