CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 8, 2026--
Cornerstone Building Brands, a leading manufacturer of exterior building products in North America, today announced the appointment of Vishal Singh as President of Windows & Doors, effective Jan. 19.
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Vishal joins Cornerstone Building Brands with more than two decades of leadership experience in the building products industry and a proven track record of driving profitable growth, operational excellence and digital transformation. His appointment underscores the company’s focus on making it easier for customers to do business with Cornerstone Building Brands and creating more value for their businesses.
Most recently, Vishal served as President of BrassCraft at Masco Corporation, where he led its global manufacturing and distribution business for rough plumbing products. Prior to BrassCraft, Vishal was President of Architectural Glass at Oldcastle Building Envelope, overseeing a business that operates 27 manufacturing facilities. Vishal also served as President of Milgard Windows at Masco, where he strengthened customer relationships across dealers, home centers and builders. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at Eaton Corporation.
“With deep building products expertise, Vishal is an outstanding choice to lead our Windows & Doors business,” said Gunner Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Building Brands. “His growth and customer-first mindset coupled with his experience driving operational excellence and digital transformation will help us deliver on our promise to make it easier for customers to do business with us. In addition, Vishal’s leadership will be instrumental in creating more value for our customers and driving growth for our company.”
Vishal earned his MBA from Case Western Reserve University and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Sardar Patel University in India.
About Cornerstone Building Brands
Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. Headquartered in Cary, N.C., we serve residential and commercial customers across the new construction and Repair & Remodel (R&R) markets. Our market-leading portfolio of products spans vinyl windows, vinyl siding, stone veneer, metal roofing, metal wall systems and metal accessories. Cornerstone Building Brands’ broad, multi-channel distribution platform and expansive national footprint includes more than 18,800 team members at manufacturing, distribution and office locations throughout North America. Corporate stewardship and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) responsibility are embedded in our culture. For more information, visit cornerstonebuildingbrands.com.
Cornerstone Building Brands welcomes Vishal Singh as President of its Windows & Doors business.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that he will allow service members to carry personal weapons onto military installations, citing the Second Amendment and recent shootings at bases across the country.
In a video posted to X, Hegseth said he is signing a memo that will direct base commanders to allow requests for troops to carry privately owned firearms “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection.”
He said any denial of a service member's request must be explained in detail and in writing.
“Effectively, our bases across the country were gun-free zones,” Hegseth said. “Unless you're training or unless you are a military policeman, you couldn't carry, you couldn't bring your own firearm for your own personal protection onto post.”
Questions about why service members lacked access to weapons have often emerged following shootings on the nation's military bases. Such shootings have ranged from isolated events between service members to mass casualty events, such as the shootings by an Army psychiatrist at Texas’ Ford Hood in 2009 that left 13 people dead.
Hegseth cited some of the events in his video, including a shooting that injured five soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia last year. Officials said the shooter, an Army sergeant who worked at the base, used his personal handgun before he was tackled by fellow soldiers and arrested.
“In these instances, minutes are a lifetime,” Hegseth said. “And our service members have the courage and training to make those precious, short minutes count.”
Defense Department policy has prohibited military personnel from carrying personal weapons on base without permission from a senior commander, with strict protocol for how the firearms must be stored.
Typically, military personnel must officially check their guns out of secure storage to go to on-base hunting areas or shooting ranges, then check all firearms back in promptly after their sanctioned use. Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.
Tanya Schardt, senior counsel at the Brady gun violence prevention organization, said in a statement that Defense Department leaders and the military’s top brass have opposed relaxing the current policy, which was originally enacted under President George H.W. Bush.
Schardt noted that most active duty service members who die by suicide do so with a weapon they own personally, not one military-issued, and argued that there will “undoubtedly be an increase in gun suicide and other gun violence.”
While fewer American service members died by suicide in 2024, the suicide rates among active duty troops overall still have gradually increased between 2011 and 2024, according to a Pentagon report released Tuesday.
“Our military installations are among the most guarded, protected properties in the world, and they’ve never been ‘gun-free zones,’” Schardt said. “If there is a problem with violent crime on these installations, then the Secretary of Defense has an obligation to alert the American people and describe how he’s working to prevent that crime.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
