Meredith Siegfried Madden

Meredith Siegfried Madden was appointed chief executive officer of NORDAM in 2011. Headquartered in Tulsa, Okla., NORDAM is one of the world’s premier family-owned aerospace providers of composite structures and engineered solutions, employing 2,500 stakeholders across multiple facilities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Madden joined the company in 1999, and progressed through a series of roles in both operations and sales, including manager of strategic market planning; vice president of Global Sales and Marketing; vice president of the Repair Group; chief operating officer, overseeing all repair and manufacturing operations in the United States, Europe and Asia; and president of NORDAM.

Prior to her NORDAM career, she was a senior consultant on mergers and acquisitions, corporate recovery services and financial advisory with Arthur Andersen’s Global Corporate Finance Group.

Madden serves on the boards of several industry organizations including SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYW), the largest regional airline in North America, and the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. She is a member of the University of Notre Dame’s Advisory Council for Student Athletes, and a founding member of the board of directors for Tulsa Flight Night, a nonprofit created by her father, late NORDAM founder Ray Siegfried. The summertime air show and gala supports STEM education for Oklahoma K-12 students. Under her leadership, NORDAM and the Siegfried family continue their longstanding support of and partnership with Tulsa Area United Way.

She is an alumna of the Aspen Institute’s two-year Henry Crown Fellowship program for accomplished entrepreneurial leaders under 45, and a past member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Madden holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Science in business administration and finance from the University of Notre Dame.