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, Hermann provides executive coaching as well as consulting services in the areas of strategic planning, value creation and exit strategies. His formal education includes an A.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.A. in Management, an Executive M.B.A. and he is currently A.B.D. as a Ph.D. Candidate with a research focus in the development of disadvantaged businesses (minority-owned, women-owned and service disabled veteran owned).
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.
“While I have known Herm and Greg through Young Presidents Organization (YPO) for more than 20 years, I recently had the pleasure of advising them on the sale of their company, Ductilcrete Technologies to NYSE:GCP. As we worked to market and sell the company, I continually recognized their extraordinary coupling of technology and vision. Ductilcrete not only offered innovative intellectual property but more importantly it disrupted the marketplace with their go to market strategy. The unfair advantage created by their “Blue Ocean” strategy generated an inordinate amount of value for customers and shareholders.”
Meet Greg
Gregory Scurto has been a lifelong entrepreneur with a history of establishing and operating sustainable small businesses. For more than 35 years Greg has been leading Scurto Cement, which is one of the largest concrete construction companies in the U.S. His career-long dedication to the development of better and more cost effective concrete slabs and pavements has produced significant improvements in every phase of their technology. This extraordinary experience has culminated to the recent introduction of Ductilcrete – a patented, dual layered, curling inhibited, minimally-joined floor system that doubles the slab’s live load capacity at no premium cost. Ductilcrete Slab Systems, which licenses its intellectual property to 25 alliance members throughout the U.S. and Canada, is rapidly becoming the preferred floor and paving system for major developers, users and owners. Ductilcrete was acquired by GCP Applied Technologies in October 2017. Mr. Scurto was featured in the January 2005 article in Concrete Construction Magazine as a “Contractor to Watch” and in 2010 Concrete Construction Magazine named Greg as one of the industry’s five “ Top Influencers.”
Mr. Scurto has also balanced his successful professional career with numerous civic contributions. From being an elected official to serving on the boards of charities, Greg has and continues to follow both his personal and business mission of sharing his good fortune and blessings with those in need.