Celeste Mastin
President and Chief Executive Officer, H.B. Fuller
Celeste Mastin is President and Chief Executive Officer of H.B. Fuller, a role she assumed in December 2022. She brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience across industrial manufacturing, specialty chemicals, and distribution businesses. Prior to joining H.B. Fuller, Ms. Mastin served as CEO and a board member of PetroChoice Lubrication Solutions and previously held CEO roles at Distribution International and MMI Products. Earlier in her career, she held senior leadership positions at Ferro Corporation and spent more than a decade in the adhesives industry, including leadership roles at Bostik Adhesives.
Ms. Mastin began her career in sales at Shell Chemical Company. She serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers and Granite Construction Inc., and is a member of advisory boards at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and Washington State University. She holds an MBA from the University of Houston and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Washington State University.
The Power of People in an Unpredictable World
The address will explore how the adhesives and sealants industry has continually reinvented itself amid changing technologies, markets, and customer needs. Drawing on examples from across the industry and H.B. Fuller’s nearly 140-year history of reinvention, Celeste will reflect on advances that have transformed the adhesives and sealants industry over the past three decades and why the people behind that transformation will determine what comes next.
At the heart of the address is a simple idea: while adhesives help hold the world together, people are what move it forward. Celeste will share why curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to embrace uncertainty as a catalyst for change remain the industry’s greatest competitive advantage in an increasingly unpredictable world.
Plenary Session IV – Uncertainty as Opportunity – 18 September 2026 – 9:05 – 9:35 – Room Whittle & Fleming – F3