Swan held executive leadership positions for over twenty years in the business services and consumer packaged goods industries.  Swan retired in March 2020 from ManpowerGroup, a $20B global workforce solutions company with over 30,000 employees across 80 countries.  Swan joined ManpowerGroup in 2005 and over her tenure was responsible for Strategy, HR, Marketing, PR & Communications, ESG, Thought Leadership, Risk Management, and the Right Management brand. 

Prior to ManpowerGroup, Swan was SVP, Global HR at MolsonCoors Brewing Company.  In 2020, Swan joined Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm, as an Operating Partner focused on talent.  Swan also serves on the board of BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:  BV) a $2.5 billion commercial landscaping firm, where she serves as Chair of the Compensation Committee.  In July 2020, Swan was appointed to the advisory board of ULINE, North America’s largest distributor of shipping and business supplies.  Swan has been on the board of GOJO Industries, a manufacturer of PURELL and other hand hygiene products, since 2011, where she serves as Compensation Chair. Swan was appointed to the board of TRAC Intermodal, a Stonepeak company, in May 2021.  In 2022, Swan also joined the board of Bader Rutter, the largest B2B ad agency in the US.

Swan was the Executive Chair of the Center on Executive Compensation until her retirement.  In 2012, she was inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and was also named HR Executive of the Year by HR Executive Magazine.  In 2015, she was named one of the fifteen most influential and prominent women leading human resource functions.

Swan is a graduate of the University of Buffalo business school and the University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, where she graduated with a master’s degree in Industrial Relations.

As a growth strategist and executive in the financial services industry Inge is focused on generating record growth results in local, regional and national sales teams, Ms. Plautz has repeatedly driven transformative and dynamic growth cultures. Her collaborative and entrepreneurial spirit brings people together to succeed in enhancing cross functional collaboration, creating peer communities, augmenting collective business acumen and developing next-generation leaders. 

Ms. Plautz brings a unique perspective and is an agile leader with multi-disciplinary experience in banking, working in specialty divisions including private equity, bond financing, global trade, ESOPs and commercial lending.

A systems thinker, Ms. Plautz can recognize opportunities for collaboration across organizational enterprises, disciplines and industries including financial services, insurance and public accounting.

Ms. Plautz graduated with an Executive MBA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2013. Her undergraduate studies from the same university included a triple major in Finance, International Business and French, and a minor in Business French.