Valerie Hansen

Ms. Hansen held key administrative positions within the University of Wisconsin System before assuming the leadership of her family's building materials business in 1978. As owner and CEO, Hansen led Big Buck Building Centers, Custom Component Company, and ProMillwork for 30 years until their sale in June 2008.

An innovator, Hansen transformed the Company from cash & carry retail into a tech-savvy, builder-focused, value-add manufacturer/distributor5. Throughout her long career she actively participated at national level in the NLBMDA (working with NAHB and American Lumber Standards Committee) and Lumbermens Merchandising Corp (LMC). From 2000-2019 Hansen earned 21 U.S. patents for inventions in the technical areas of finance and data processing (assigned to BuyMetrics).