AOL is featuring  Confluence Outdoor CEO Sue Rechner this week in its This Built America editorial series, which is featuring 50 people in 50 states in 50 weeks to celebrate people have helped create or sustain manufacturing jobs in the United States.

The multimedia series features text, photography and video to illustrate changes undertaken by Confluence Outdoor under CEO Sue Rechner, who joined the company in late 2007 as it was struggling with quality control problems after consolidating manufacturing of several brands under one roof.
 
Sue has the skill-set to run a billion-dollar business, explains private equity firm, and new Confluence Outdoor owners, J.H. Whitney managing director Paul Vigano. Shes really passionate about the outdoors. The industry really needs people like her.
 
With sponsorship from Ford Trucks, AOL editorial and video teams are exploring all 50 states in 50 weeks to bring 50 stories of the people who are bringing back manufacturing to America. Other companies featured in the series include Ramp Sports of Park City, UT;  Denver Tent Co., of Denver, CO; Simms Fishing Products of Bozeman, MT; Liberty Bottleworks of Union Gap, WA and Shinola of Detroit, MI.
 
To see how Rechner changed Confluences culture while sustaining the Confluence culture, visit This Built America, or follow This Built America on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+. The This Built America platform is produced in coordination with Man Made Content.