Katherine Gehl

As the former president and CEO of Gehl Foods, Katherine Gehl was able to implement an aggressive and transformative growth strategy for the company that earned her multiple awards. After selling the company in 2015, Gehl chose to pursue political reform and published a book titled The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save our Democracy (2020). In the book, Gehl expresses her deep concern over the path our nation is on, focusing predominantly on the inability of our political system to address the vulnerabilities threatening the competitiveness of our country.