Leadership & Board of Directors

President & Chief EXECutive officer

Andy Rose

Andy Rose is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Worthington Enterprises. Rose was CEO of Worthington Industries until the Company separated its steel processing business in December 2023. Rose led the initiative to create two standalone, publicly traded companies, Worthington Enterprises and Worthington Steel, positioning both companies to capitalize on differentiated growth and value creation strategies.

Andy Rose joined Worthington Industries in 2008 as vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). In 2014, he became executive vice president and CFO before taking on the president role in August 2018. He was named president and CEO on Sept. 1, 2020.
 
Before joining Worthington, Rose worked at MCG Capital Corporation where he was a senior investment professional in the Atlanta office for the $1.5 billion public investment company. He focused on making control-equity investments and providing debt financing for companies in the manufacturing, distribution and transportation and logistics industries.

Previously, Rose was partner, co-founder and member of the investment committee with Peachtree Equity Partners, a private equity fund backed by Goldman Sachs. He managed debt and equity recapitalizations for manufacturing, distribution and service firms, served on the board of directors of various companies, advised management on growth strategies and operations, and managed the firm’s institutional investor base. Prior to that, Rose served as vice president of private equity at Wachovia Capital Associates for five years and started his career at J.P. Morgan & Co. in global cash management.

Rose earned his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Rose currently serves on the board of directors of White Castle®, Rev1 Ventures as past chairman and OhioHealth as chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee. He is also a member of The Ohio Business Roundtable and the Columbus Partnership. Previously, he has served as a member of the board of trustees of the Community Shelter Board, The First Tee of Central Ohio, the Columbus Business Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the FM Global Advisory Board.