Tennant Company Announces Senior Leadership Updates to Direct ERP Transformation and Drive Product Innovation

Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC), a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of solutions that help create a cleaner, safer, healthier world, today announced it has made changes to its senior leadership team to support its enterprise growth strategy. Barb Balinski will provide dedicated executive oversight to the Company’s business process transformation initiative as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer; Pat Schottler will move into a new role focused on product innovation and disruptive technologies as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing and Technology Officer.

Senior Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer

Barb Balinski has served as Tennant’s Chief Innovation and Technology Officer (CI&TO) since 2021, leading the Company’s R&D, Marketing, and IT functions. In 2023, the Company kicked off a significant initiative to consolidate and modernize its business processes through an organization-wide SAP conversion. Focused executive oversight of this transformative work is critical to its success, so earlier this year Tennant made the decision to split the CI&TO role to allow her to focus her time. With the newly created role of Chief Marketing and Technology Officer now filled, Balinski will complete her transition to the role of SVP, Chief Transformation Officer, where she will be tasked with working cross-functionally to guide execution, drive alignment, and maintain momentum throughout this crucial initiative.

“Barb’s leadership of our ERP modernization effort to date has moved Tennant through some key milestones, including the development of the business case, definition of project scope, resource planning, partner selection, and project kick-off,” said Dave Huml, Tennant Company President and CEO. “She brings significant organizational knowledge to this role, along with experience working on business transformation and leading organizations through change. I am grateful to Barb for her focus and dedication to this work, and I believe her leadership will be critical to successfully completing our ERP modernization project.”

Balinski joined Tennant Company in 2018. She initially led the R&D function, overseeing the successful development of the Company’s groundbreaking autonomous robot program and developing a robust pipeline of new innovations. In 2021, she joined the senior leadership team, and has maintained responsibility for R&D, Marketing and IT functions as the Company has undertaken significant work to focus and leverage its product portfolio, expand offerings in key markets and segments, and expand robotics offerings. Prior to working at Tennant, Balinski led the engineering team at Whirlpool Corporation’s Integrated Business Units and spent 11 years with Saturn Corporation, a subsidiary of General Motors.