Lionel L. Nowell is on the board of Ecolab, Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Textron, Inc. and Member of Executive Leadership Council, Inc., Member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Member of The Financial Executives Institute and Member of The Ohio Society of CPA's.

In the past he was CFO-Pillsbury North America at Diageo Plc, Treasurer & Senior Vice President at PepsiCo, Inc. and Chief Financial Officer of The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc.), Finance Executive at Pizza Hut LLC, Senior VP-Strategy & Business Development at RJR Nabisco, Inc. and Vice President-Internal Audit & Controller at The Pillsbury Co. LLC.

He received an undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University.