Leadership

Bill Wagner is an inspirational executive, passionate about creating exceptional employee and customer experiences. As Penta’s CEO, Wagner developed a long-term strategy for business growth around Penta’s innovative-product portfolio of SaaS solutions. These solutions tackle some of the most challenging issues in construction, including labor productivity, job-cost accounting and complex payroll.  

Wagner leads Penta’s transformational journey to become a full Scrum Agile organization. This cultural revolution empowers employees with a greater sense of ownership, creates a high-performance culture and led to a 50% increase in employee engagement. The Scrum Agile business-model positions Penta for sustained growth in the competitive-construction sector. 

Prior to Penta, Wagner worked for start-ups, mid-size and Fortune Global 500 firms. Wagner generates business growth through the application of cutting-edge best practices for business, science, marketing and economic industries.   

Wagner holds a degree in Communications from Marquette University. He is a current member and past President of the American Marketing Association’s Milwaukee Chapter. Wagner was a featured presenter for Engineering News Record, ACHR News, EC&M Magazine, Construction Executive, ASCC, ABC National, ABC Wisconsin, The EBFC Show, NECA, AGC ITCon and Construction Revolution.  

Laura Henderson, a construction-industry leader with innovative approaches and story-telling skills, is deeply committed to solving labor-productivity problems in construction while also sharing the strengths of relationships.  

With 20 years of industry and leadership experience, Henderson began her career as a Global IT Director of a Fortune 500 company that served the manufacturing sector. From there, Henderson continued to gain leadership experience in technology, education and construction. Her current role as STRUXI’s President continues Henderson’s employee-centric approach as she leads innovative-problem solving for construction productivity and collaboration.    

Henderson holds a Management of Computer Services degree and a Business minor from Ottawa University. Henderson’s leadership and innovative approaches earned her the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s 2012 Women of Influence Award. To continue her modernized and innovative-leadership approach while enhancing productivity, Henderson received her PSM I Scrum Master Certification in 2019. Her speaking experience entails the Agile Meetup, Scrum.org's global conference and AMA UK’s Executive Women in Technology conference.