Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 10, 2001
EMERY G. OLCOTT is the Chief Executive Officer of Packard BioScience
Company, a position he has held since 1971. He also serves as Chairman
of the Board, a role he has held since the closing of the 1997
recapitalization of the company. Mr. Olcott co-founded Packard
BioScience Company in 1965. Mr. Olcott was the Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Yankee Energy System, Inc., a gas distribution company
which was recently acquired by Northeast Utilities; and he has been
elected to the Board of Directors of Northeast Utilities. In addition,
he is a Director of Agencourt Bioscience Corporation and a Vice Chairman
and Trustee of The Loomis Chaffee School. He is also a member of the
Dean's Advisory Council for the Sloan School of Management at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Olcott graduated from Yale
University in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and from MIT in
1963 with a Master of Science degree. Profile
BioScience?
Mr. Olcott: Packard emerged in the 1950s as a provider of biomedical
research instruments; from those roots, we
