Paul Montrone | |
---|---|
Born | May 8, 1941 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Scranton Columbia University Business School |
Occupation(s) | Chairman and CEO of Bayberry Financial Services Liberty Lane Partners & Latona Associates |
Spouse | Sandra Gaudenzi Montrone (May 30, 1963-Present) |
Website | paulmontrone |
Paul M. Montrone (born May 8, 1941) is the Chairman of several financial entities -- Bayberry Financial Services, Liberty Lane Partners and Latona Associates, and was previously CEO of several operating companies including Fisher Scientific Inc.
Montrone was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He obtained a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude from the University of Scranton in 1962 and a PhD from Columbia University Business School in 1965. [1]
Montrone began his career at the Pentagon, serving in the Systems Analysis Group in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara while a Captain in the U.S. Army. [2] He later served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Wheelabrator-Frye Inc., Executive Vice President of the Signal Companies, Inc. and its successor, AlliedSignal Inc. (now Honeywell) President of the Henley Group, Inc., and CEO of Wheelabrator Technologies. [3]
Montrone eventually became President and CEO of Fisher Scientific in 1991 and Chairman in 1998, resigning upon the company's merger with Thermo Electron in 2006. [4] [5] After the merger, he moved into the financial business as a founder of Perspecta Trust, LLC, a New Hampshire based trust company, and other financial entities, as described above.
Montrone was also active in numerous government matters at both the Federal and NH State level.
During the Clinton Administration, he was a member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, and a founder of the National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting. He was a Director of the Healthcare Leadership Council and the New England Healthcare Institute. He was also a Director and Treasurer of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
Montrone has been involved in other Washington, D.C. business policy matters, mainly through his activity with the Business Roundtable, where he was a member of its Planning Committee and the Health and Retirement Task Force and Chairman of its Civil Justice Reform Taskforce.
Montrone was active in various non profit entities. He served as President and CEO of The Metropolitan Opera, where he is now President Emeritus. His current other non profit boards include the New England Conservatory, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is also a Founder of the Peace on Earth Foundation, Friends of Italian Americans and Citizens Count.
Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one of the oldest business schools in the world.
Lazard Inc. is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients. It is the world's largest independent investment bank, with principal executive offices in New York City, Paris and London.
Ronald Allen Williams is an American businessman and board director on corporate, public sector and non-profit boards. Williams is the author of Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization, which appeared on The Wall Street Journal's best seller list. He is founder, chairman and CEO of RW2 Enterprises, LLC. Williams is the former chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Aetna Inc.. Aetna is now part of CVS Health.
John H. Biggs is a former director of The Boeing Company from their 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas until May 2011, and the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a trustee of Washington University in St. Louis. He was previously chairman and chief executive officer of financial services company TIAA-CREF from January 1993 until November 2002.
Paul N. Saleh, is an American business executive having served as CEO of the Atos Group from January to July 2024, after serving as CFO for the same group. Previously was president and chief executive officer for Gainwell Technologies. Mr. Saleh is currently a board member of Anterix. Mr Saleh also served as board member of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation, American Football Coaches Foundation and Perspecta Inc. In May 2012 Mr. Saleh was named CSC's Chief Financial Officer. In November 2010 Mr. Saleh was named Gannett's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Saleh served as the chief financial officer (CFO) and executive vice president for Nextel Communications. He later served as interim chief executive officer (CEO) of Sprint Nextel Corporation in late 2007 and as the company's CFO from 2001 to 2008.
Fuad El-Hibri was a German-American businessman and philanthropist, and founder of Emergent BioSolutions.
McDonald & Co. was a full-service investment firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, established in 1927. Internally, it was referred to as "McD" (mick-D). It was sold to hometown bank KeyCorp in 1998, but was eventually sold to the U.S. investment arm of Swiss banking giant UBS AG in 2007.
Wallace E. Boston Jr. is an American academic administrator and businessman, currently serving as President Emeritus of the American Public University System. Dr. Boston had previously served as president from 2004 to 2016, and from September 2017 through August 2020.
Alan B. Miller is an American businessman who is the founder of Universal Health Services, and currently serves as the company's executive chairman. Miller founded the company in 1979 and it has grown to become a large provider of hospital and healthcare services in the US and the UK. In September 2020, UHS announced that Miller would step down as CEO.
Michael Jaharis was an American lawyer, businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of Kos Pharmaceuticals and Vatera Healthcare Partners LLC, and co-founder of Arisaph Pharmaceuticals.
Sanju K. Bansal is an Indian-American businessman, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, a worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile software, big data and cloud-based services. He served as the company's vice chairman of the board of directors and executive vice president till November 14, 2013. From 1993-2012, he served as chief operating officer of MicroStrategy. Bansal serves or has served as a member of the board of directors of CSRA, a technology services provider to the US government, Cvent, a cloud-based event management software provider, and The Advisory Board Company, a technology research services company.
Thomas Fearn Frist Jr. is an American billionaire physician and businessman. He is a co-founder of HCA Healthcare, and the wealthiest person in Tennessee.
William H. Rogers Jr. is an American businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer of Truist Financial Corporation. Prior to that he was chairman and chief executive officer of Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks, Inc. In December 2019, Charlotte-based Truist was created through a merger of equals between SunTrust and Winston-Salem-based BB&T. Truist is currently the sixth largest U.S. bank, and the merger is the biggest bank deal since the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Rogers became president and chief operating officer of Truist after the merger, and he became CEO in September 2021.
Joseph Robert Swedish is an American healthcare executive and leader. He is a former senior adviser to the board of directors at Anthem, Inc., a Fortune 29 company, and was the CEO of Anthem, Inc. from 2013 to 2017. For 12 years in a row Swedish was named Modern Healthcare’s one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.
Bruce Dale Broussard is an American business executive. From 2013 to 2024, Broussard served as Chief Executive Officer of Humana, a healthcare company with headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to joining Humana, he served in several executive roles, including chief executive office of McKesson Specialty/US Oncology.
Daniel E. Straus is an American business executive, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, real estate developer and philanthropist. He is the founder or co-founder of several health care companies such as CareOne LLC, InnovaCare Health, Ascend Home Health, Ascend Concierge Home Care, Ascend Hospice, Partners Pharmacy, The Straus Group, Multicare Companies Inc. He also became vice chairman of the Memphis Grizzlies professional basketball team.
Itzhak Fisher, is an Israeli businessman who served as the Founder and General Partner of Pereg Ventures.
Cynthia Fisher is an American businesswoman, entrepreneur, and corporate board director. She was a pioneer in the stem cell industry, founding the cord blood stem cell banking company, ViaCord, Inc., in 1993. In 2000, she co-founded ViaCell, which went public in 2005 and was subsequently acquired by PerkinElmer for its ViaCord brand.