Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> February 7, 2001
THOMAS E. WILSON joined LCA-Vision in June 1997, became President and
COO in December 1998 and CEO in January 2001. He began his business
career in 1967 as an Engineer with the Pratt-Whitney Division of United
Technologies Corporation. Mr. Wilson joined GE Aircraft Engines in 1979
as Manager of Marketing Support and Strategic Planning, steadily worked
his way up the managerial ladder to become head of the company's $1
billion commercial spare parts operations in 1993. He left GE to become
Vice President of Operations at the Cincinnati Mine Machinery Company,
and later joined Pease Industries, first as a consultant and then as
Vice President, Manufacturing. LCA-Vision's CEO, earned a Bachelor's
degree in Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD and
an MBA in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Profile
the present, and then a profile of the company as it is now?
Mr. Wilson: LCA-Vision is a company that began in 1995, and
