Background

Sandy Riggs is a sales leader with two decades in the chemical manufacturing and janitorial-sanitation (Jan-San) industry, having built her career leading and motivating sales organizations across both distribution and manufacturing — from a decade covering the western U.S. as a divisional manager for Spartan Chemical to senior sales leadership in the maintenance and operations space. Today she is Vice President of Sales at Fuller Industries, a chemical products manufacturer, where she led the consolidation of manufacturing from Canada into the company's Kansas facility, and she describes herself simply as a people person whose strength is helping customers find the right product for the job and lower their total cost of operation.

Why American Operator

Sandy is drawn to American Operator's mission of keeping businesses locally owned and operated, and is especially moved by the chance to help founders who poured years into building a company but lack a succession plan — sparing those businesses from losing the local feel and touch that made them successful. With deep sales leadership and hands-on M&A and integration experience in industrial markets, she's well suited to guide operators stepping into chemical manufacturing and distribution businesses.