Grant H. Beard is the Chairman of the Board of Advanced Energy Industries, where he has served as a director since 2014. He brings extensive senior management and public-board experience together with global expertise across industrial markets and the private equity and merchant banking industry.
Mr. Beard currently serves as an Advisor and Limited Partner of Blue Point Capital, a private equity firm, as Operating Partner of Center Rock Capital, a global alternative investment firm, and as an Advisor and Limited Partner of Covington Capital. He previously served as a Senior Executive Operating Partner for Blue Point Capital from 2017 to 2025 and from 2009 to 2014, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wynnchurch Industries, LLC, a diversified holding company investing in engineered product businesses, from January 2016 to June 2017. He also served as a Senior Advisor to Wynnchurch Capital Ltd.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Beard was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wolverine Advanced Materials LLC, a Wynnchurch company, from July 2012 until October 2015; President and Chief Executive Officer of Constar International, Inc. from 2010 to 2012, where he led the financial and operational restructuring of Constar's global packaging business that was later sold to Plastipak Corporation; and President and CEO of TriMas Corporation, Chairman and CEO of Health Media, and Global Group President of Fluid Management Products at Dana/Echlin Corporation. He also gained experience at two private equity and merchant banking groups, the Anderson Group and the Oxford Investment Group. He has served and currently serves on private company boards including AIR Automation and Gage.