ClarkDietrich announced March 18 the impending retirement of its president and CEO, Jim Collins. Collins, who has been at the helm of ClarkDietrich since 2017, will step down on March 31, 2025. Brian Panuccio, the company’s current chief commercial officer, has been tapped to take the reins upon Collins’ departure.
Collins has served in a variety of roles in his four decades of service, beginning as a management trainee with Dietrich Industries in 1983 after graduation from Hiram College earlier that same year. In 2011, he moved to Cincinnati to become ClarkDietrich’s chief information officer. He was part of the team that brought two industry-leading firms together when ClarkWestern Building Systems and Dietrich Metal Framing were combined to form ClarkDietrich Building Systems following the challenges of the great financial crisis. Today, the company remains the nation’s top producer of steel framing materials and employs over 1,500 people across 17 facilities throughout the USA and Canada.