Nicholas Fink
Nicholas Fink
Chief Executive Officer
Nick is chief executive officer (CEO), and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Board’s Executive Committee.
Since being named CEO of Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. in 2020, Nick has led the transformation of the Company from a home and security business into a technology and innovation disruptor. Nick envisioned and spearheaded the 2022 spin-off of the Company’s Cabinets business and a full-scale organizational restructure to position Fortune Brands Innovations as a new, more agile and growth-driven company. As CEO, Nick also led the Company through the Covid pandemic and subsequent supply chain disruptions, and has continued to grow the Company through acquisitions. In total, Nick is responsible for 12 major acquisitions since joining Fortune Brands in 2015, including the transformational 2023 acquisition of the U.S. and Canada Yale and August smart residential brands and Emtek and Schaub luxury hardware brands.
Prior to being promoted to CEO, Nick was chief operating officer for Fortune Brands. Before that, he served as the president of the Company’s water business from April 2016 until March 2019, and took strategic actions to expand beyond the business’ legacy Moen brand, added connected product capabilities and paved the way for the House of Rohl global luxury portfolio.
Before he joined Fortune Brands in June 2015 as senior vice president – global growth and development, Nick worked at Beam Suntory, Inc., where he held several key management positions, including president of Asia Pacific and South America. Nick first joined Beam Global Spirits & Wine as its associate general counsel in 2006, after having been partner in the corporate practice group at Bell, Boyd and Lloyd.
Nick sits on the Board of Directors for Constellation Brands and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange Advisory Council. Nick has a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University and an undergraduate degree from the Institut d’Etudes des Relations Internationales, in Paris, France.