Danna Stone

Danna B. Stone is Senior Vice President, Marketing for Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical and communications products and related supply chain management services.

Stone started her career in electrical distribution in 1999 and has held various director and VP positions. She joined Graybar in 2014 and has been VP – Strategic Accounts, District Vice President for the St. Louis District, and VP – Category Management. As SVP – Marketing, Stone combines the traditional role of negotiating distribution and incentive agreements with a heightened responsibility to drive growth and profitability in all product categories. In addition, she manages market development and marketing communications for Graybar.

Stone holds a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has completed executive leadership programs at the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is currently pursuing her EMBA at Washington University.

Stone is a corporate partner team member for the St. Louis Symphony and the St. Louis Art Museum, and a member of the Board of Directors for both the St. Louis Ronald McDonald House Organization and the YMCA. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for IDEA.

She received the STL Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award in 2015, Graybar’s WINGS Leadership Award in 2019, and President’s Club in both 2017 and 2019. Further, Danna is the 2018 Courage Award recipient of the Melanoma Research Foundation.

She and her husband, Steve, have two children.