Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> April 12, 1999
GERALD G. GARBACZ is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Nashua Corporation, a manufacturer of office products including thermal
papers, pressure-sensitive labels and specialty papers, and copier and
laser printer supplies. Prior to joining Nashua in 1996, Mr. Garbacz was
with W.R. Grace & Co. for eighteen years, where he worked in various
executive positions including President of their Baker & Taylor
Division, Senior Vice President, Executive Vice President and Group
Executive ' Grace Specialty Business, a $2 billion group of industrial
niche businesses. In 1992, Baker & Taylor was sold as a leverage buyout
to a group of investors including Mr. Garbacz and he became Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer. Baker & Taylor is a $900 million
distributor of information products including books, video cassettes and
software. Mr. Garbacz's prior business experience includes Phillips
Industries, Boise Cascade and Cummins Engine Company. Mr. Garbacz was
selected as a White House Fellow in 1968 where he worked for one year as
the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Mr. Garbacz
graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1959, served with U.S.
Marine Corps for four years on active duty and nineteen as a reserve
officer, and earned his M.B.A. with Highest Distinction from the Amos
Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College in 1965. He
is a Director of the Business and Industry Association of New
Hampshire, is a past president and a member of the Board of the White
House Fellows Foundation, and is a Trustee of Gettysburg College and
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. He and his wife, Jane, live in
Amherst, New Hampshire, and have two adult sons. Profile
company's history just to set the stage for the readers.
Mr. Garbacz: Let me start with the company's history, which I think
