Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 2, 2004
LESLIE J. JEZUIT is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Quixote Corporation. He joined the company as President and Chief
Operating Officer in January 1996 and was elected to the Board of
Directors in May 1997. In October 1999, he assumed the position of Chief
Executive Officer and on July 30, 2001, he was elected Chairman of the
Board of Directors. Prior to joining Quixote he was President and Chief
Operating Officer of RobertShaw Controls Company, a division of Siebe
Group (now Invensys Plc.). He has also held the position of Vice
President and General Manager, Industrial Control and Power Distribution
Operations Worldwide of Eaton Corporation. Mr. Jezuit was Vice President
of Corporate Development with Federal Signal Corporation, Vice President
of Marketing with Mead Digital Systems and Manager, Strategic Planning,
Commercial Systems at Rockwell International. He is a Vice Chairman and
member of the Executive Committee of the American Highway Users
Alliance. He has a Master of Business Administration degree from the
Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Profile
Mr. Jezuit: Quixote is a company that's been around for 35 years. It
started out by marketing water-filled bumpers for
