Lori Northrup
Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
Stride Tool
Lori has quite the accomplished background and is involved in
many areas. She is currently the Chairman of the Board for
Stride Tool
(www.stridetool.com), which she established and built into a
worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of specialty hand
tools. Stride is now a $42 million company with 275 employees
and plants in western New York, Ohio, Illinois and China. Stride
Tool was the first American hand tool company to be ISO9001
certified.
She founded the online authority
(www.toolsource.com)
featuring the sale of tools to
automotive professionals. She is also a part owner and managing
partner of Ellicottville Energy Inc.
She has received her master’s degree from the State University
of New York at Buffalo while graduating with distinction.
Lori is a the treasurer of Friends of Sound Horses. She is also the
founder and current manager of the San Salvador Cyber Center
(www.sansalvador.cc), a not-for-profit community computer
learning center in the Bahamas started in 2002.
Lori was our guest on November 30, 2005. Click here for a YouTube sample of her remarks.
The monthly Guest Executive Dinner series is sponsored by Houghton's business department for the purpose of increasing student exposure to marketplace professionals from various fields and service opportunities to be both salt and light after college.
