Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> July 23, 2001
DONALD J. SHEA is President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of
thehealthchannel.com., Inc. A 1955 graduate of Georgetown University,
Mr. Shea began his business career in 1956 as an Administrative
Assistant in the Boyle Midway Division of American Home Products. During
his five years there, he was Sales Promotion Manager, Assistant to the
President and a Product Manager when he left in 1961 to join Clairol, a
Division of Bristol-Myers Squibb. He was Director of Sales and Marketing
for the United Kingdom based in London, England. He returned to the US
as Clairol's Director of Marketing, and subsequently became Vice
President, Marketing and Sales, Senior Vice President, Executive Vice
President and then President of Clairol in 1976. He became a Vice
President of Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1977. He has been a Consultant to
such companies as W.R. Grace & Co., DDB Needham Worldwide Advertising,
SC Johnson & Co., Richardson Vicks, Inc., The Brown Group and many other
companies. He was at one time President, CEO of The Neslemur Company. He
was a Consultant to Biologix International Ltd., a medical device
research and development company with interests in developing an
Internet healthcare Website. He was elected a board member in 1997.
Biologix, through the acquisition of IQ Now, a medical-related Internet
Website, was the forerunner to what is now thehealthchannel.com Inc. Profile
thehealthchannel.com, Inc., and an overview of the company as it is now.
Mr. Shea: The company was, in its present form, organized on
