Clinton Howard

CLINTON HOWARD is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Royal
BodyCare, Inc. Following a 16-year career in the medical testing
laboratories industry, Mr. Howard pioneered and developed the medical
applications of Aloe vera, resulting in several products approved for
sale by the US government and on the market today. Mr. Howard founded
American Biomedical Corporation in 1958, which he built into a chain of
40 medical testing laboratories nationwide. He took the company public
in 1969 and merged with National Health Laboratories, one of the
nation’s largest medical laboratory chains, in 1974. Mr. Howard founded
Carrington Laboratories, a manufacturer of skin care products, in 1974.
In 1981 he established the research division, which isolated an active
medicinal compound in Aloe vera, Acemannan. He retired from Carrington
in 1990 and founded Royal BodyCare U.S. in 1991. Mr. Howard was
appointed by Texas Governor John Connally as one of six members of the
Texas Air Control Board in 1960. He also served as founding President of
Baylor Irving Medical Center from 1960 to 1965 and remained on the Board
of Directors until 1986. In recognition of Mr. Howard’s civic and
philanthropic contributions, the hospital named its outpatient section
‘The Clinton H. Howard Center of Health Management.’