CGM Spotlight: Lester Mallet
How long have you been with CGM?
The one year anniversary was May 1, 2025!
What’s your favorite part about your job?
Closing a sale, but a close second is visiting a customer’s facility to see what they do!
Tell us the weirdest anecdote you have about glue. (fact, story, etc.)
Most interesting glue sale was to Saturday Night Live around 1980. They used a jelly gum glue in a skit where joggers in Central Park fell into this muck. A runner could not get up and saw a skeleton a few feet away who had been snared!
Set the scene. What does a typical Saturday look like for you?
Dinner with friends.
What motto do you live by?
Do the right thing, instilled within me by my father.
What’s your go-to snack?
Whoever combined peanut butter and chocolate should be given the Nobel prize!
Who is your superhero?
I have two: my dad and my wife.
Tell us about your family.
Married for nearly 43 years, have a son and daughter who are married and a two month old grand-daughter that I’m planning on spoiling.
What is your special/hidden talent or hobby?
Love to read: American history, historical fiction and science fiction
Where is your favorite vacation spot? Tell us about it.
Aruba, One Happy Island. Always a nice breeze and not as humid as the Caribbean.
What’s your favorite movie or TV show?
Casablanca
What’s on your music playlist?
Country Rock
What’s the last book you read?
My Name is Resolute by Nancy Turner, historical fiction early to late 18th century set in Massachusetts.
