Meet Herm.

Hermann J. Schneider has been a lifelong entrepreneur with a history of founding, operating, and exiting businesses in the manufacturing, franchised restaurant, and construction industries.

As the CEO of Ductilcrete Technologies, Mr. Schneider successfully executed the sale of this construction industry startup to GCP Applied Technologies Inc. (NYSE: GCP) in the fall of 2017.  Today, as the owner of x10 Consulting LLC, Hermannprovides coaching and consulting services in the areas of strategic planning, value creation, as well as exit strategies.

Mr. Schneider has taught Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Professor at Dominican University in River Forest, IL, at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, IL as well as the University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic. He sits on the Business School advisory board for St. Francis, as well as the Graaskamp Real Estate School at the University of Wisconsin.

Special honors include: being inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2009 and as an honorary member of Delta Mu Delta in 2014. Mr. Schneider is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and has taught and utilized “Lean” for more than a decade. 

Hermann has been a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) since 1995 and is on the executive committee for YPO’s Construction Industry Network.