John Brunner

Chairman of Vi-Jon, the St. Louis-based maker of Germ-X hand sanitizer, one of the largest privately held companies in St. Louis with an estimated $560 million in annual revenue. John Brunner is a former active duty Marine Corps officer and the third generation of the Brunner family to lead Vi-Jon, a St. Louis based manufacturing company founded in 1908 by his grandparents, Viola and John B. Brunner. John is a graduate of Harding University and received his MBA at the John M. Olin School of Business Administration at Washington University in St. Louis. He also studied economics at the Foundation of Economic Education in New York.