Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 8, 1999
DAVID LASKY is Chairman and President and CEO of Curtiss-Wright
Corporation. Mr. Lasky was elected to the positions of Director,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Curtiss-Wright in May of 1993.
He assumed the additional position of Chairman of the Board in May of
1995. Since his election as President, Mr. Lasky has been involved in
directing Curtiss-Wright towards the objective of sustained, profitable
growth, despite the substantial contraction of its defense markets. To
this end, the Corporation has made significant investments while
maintaining its profit performance. Prior to his election as President,
Mr. Lasky was a career member of the Curtiss-Wright Law Department,
rising to the position of General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer at the
age of thirty-eight. In this position, Mr. Lasky was primarily involved
in corporation and business law, government contract matters and the
supervision of litigation. In his additional roles as a Vice President
and then a Senior Vice President of the Corporation, he functioned as an
advisor to the then Chairman and President on numerous business issues
and performed special assignments for him. Mr. Lasky, a native of the
New York City area, received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1954,
graduating magna cum laude with Honors in history, having been elected
to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1957 as a
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Among the organizations of which Mr. Lasky
is a member: The President's Association (American Management
Association), Business Executives for National Security and The
Manufacturer's Alliance for Productivity and Innovation. While
functioning as General Counsel of Curtiss-Wright he was a member of
various legal organizations and served as Chair of the American Bar
Association's Committee on Corporate General Counsel. Profile
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