Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 13, 2000
WILLIAM M. CARPENTER is Chairman and CEO and a Director of Bausch &
Lomb. Mr. Carpenter joined Bausch & Lomb in March 1995 as Executive Vice
President and global business manager-Eyewear. He was named President
and COO in December 1995, and was elected a director in January 1997. He
assumed his current position in January 1999. Prior to joining Bausch &
Lomb, Mr. Carpenter had been president and CEO of Reckitt & Colman,
Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Reckitt & Colman, plc, since 1994;
president and COO from 1992; and president of the Household Products
Division from 1991. Before joining Reckitt & Colman, he held a variety
of sales, marketing and operating positions with Johnson & Johnson's
health care and consumer products businesses between 1977 and 1991. Mr.
Carpenter received a B.A. degree in History from Dartmouth College and a
Masters of Management, Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg Graduate
School of Management at Northwestern University in 1977. Mr. Carpenter
is a member of the boards of the United Way of Greater Rochester and the
University of Rochester. He is also a member of the Bishop's Stewardship
Council of the Rochester Catholic Diocese. Profile
Mr. Carpenter: Bausch & Lomb is one of the oldest continually operating
businesses in America: we're almost 150 years old; we were
