David M. Maura
CEO
2018 – Present
8 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Maura was named Executive Chairman and CEO of Spectrum Brands in July 2018, after building his investment career at Harbinger Capital Partners (2006-2012) and then HRG Group, where he was Managing Director and EVP of Investments from 2011 to 2016 and a board member through 2017 -- HRG being the investment vehicle that controlled Spectrum Brands before the 2018 restructuring that put Maura directly in the operating chair.
Legacy
Maura's background as an investor rather than a career consumer-products executive has shaped Spectrum Brands' portfolio-management approach, actively reshaping which pet-care, home-and-garden, and personal-care brands the company holds rather than running them as a fixed lineup, though FY2025 net sales still declined about 5% amid soft discretionary demand. His investor background continues to shape Spectrum's approach to the 2026 Oaktree partnership, treating the appliances business as a distinct capital-allocation problem rather than a permanently fixed division. His three-decade run as both an investor in and then operator of Spectrum-related entities is unusually long for a public-company CEO, giving him institutional memory spanning the HRG Group era, the Spectrum Brands merger, and the current three-segment structure.