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Alcon CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, David J. Endicott is the Alcon's CEO. Alcon has 20,001 employees, of which 46 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Alcon executive team is 33% female and 67% male.
  • 65% of the management team is White.
  • 12% of Alcon management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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David J. Endicott

CEO

David J. Endicott's LinkedIn

David J. Endicott is the CEO of Alcon, a member of its Board of Directors, and leads the Alcon Executive Committee. He joined Alcon in July of 2016 as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Alcon, Mr. Endicott was President of Hospira Infusion Systems, a Pfizer company. During his tenure there, he led Hospira’s medical device business through a turnaround, carve-out, and eventual sale. Critical to the turnaround, he advanced the company’s product pipeline, returned its products to market from quality disruptions and accelerated global growth. Before joining Hospira, David served as an officer and executive committee member of Allergan where he spent more than 25 years of his career in leadership roles across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the US. He accelerated Allergan’s international growth and successfully built new markets focused on medical specialties in the areas of ophthalmology, plastic surgery, dermatology and aesthetic medicine. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of AdvaMed, and has previously served on the Boards of Zeltiq (NASDAQ: ZLTQ), and Orexigen (NASDAQ: OREX).

David holds an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Whitman College, an MBA from the University of Southern California, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

Robert Alexander

Founder

William Conner

Founder

Sue-Jean Lin

SVP, Chief Information & Transformation Officer

Sue-Jean Lin's LinkedIn

My name is Sue Jean Lin. I am an accomplished global business leader across a diverse set of corporate functions including information technology, finance, cyber security, risk management, and digital transformation. I possess deep strategic and operational leadership experience and have demonstrated ability to drive higher business performance. My career in the life sciences industry spans over 30 years where I have driven enterprise growth and business turnarounds. I am a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 C-suites and board members. I am passionate about making a difference to customers. By focusing on “what’s making the business and customer successful”, I have led the development of strategy, technology implementation, and digital transformation that delivered growth and sustained changes for global pharmaceutical and medical device companies. I am a globalist, lived and worked in multiple continents.While my broad business experience is what mostly helped me to succeed, listening to the business, customers and end users has created greater access to intelligence and execution wisdom. My peers describe me as collaborative and outcome-driven colleague. My team sees me as a visionary, inspiring and supportive leader.

Edward McGough

SVP

F. Michael Ball

Board Member

Franck Leveiller

SVP

Karen J. May

Board Member

Kim Martin

SVP, Chief Human Resources Officer

Kim Martin's LinkedIn

Experienced global human resources executive with expertise in culture transformation, compensation and benefits, and mergers and acquisitions across healthcare, industrial, financial services and technology industries. Deliver innovative and elegant solutions for company and customer challenges. Adept in compensation committee governance and executive compensation program design.

Laurent Attias

Head-Strategy & Business Development

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Robert Alexander

Founder

William Conner

Founder

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Name & TitleBio
David J. Endicott

CEO

David J. Endicott's LinkedIn

David J. Endicott is the CEO of Alcon, a member of its Board of Directors, and leads the Alcon Executive Committee. He joined Alcon in July of 2016 as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Alcon, Mr. Endicott was President of Hospira Infusion Systems, a Pfizer company. During his tenure there, he led Hospira’s medical device business through a turnaround, carve-out, and eventual sale. Critical to the turnaround, he advanced the company’s product pipeline, returned its products to market from quality disruptions and accelerated global growth. Before joining Hospira, David served as an officer and executive committee member of Allergan where he spent more than 25 years of his career in leadership roles across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the US. He accelerated Allergan’s international growth and successfully built new markets focused on medical specialties in the areas of ophthalmology, plastic surgery, dermatology and aesthetic medicine. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of AdvaMed, and has previously served on the Boards of Zeltiq (NASDAQ: ZLTQ), and Orexigen (NASDAQ: OREX).

David holds an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Whitman College, an MBA from the University of Southern California, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

F. Michael Ball

Board Member

Karen J. May

Board Member

Lynn Dorsey Bleil

Board Member

Scott Maw

Board Member

Thomas Heinrich Glanzmann

Board Member

Arthur Cummings

Board Member

D. Keith Grossman

Vice Chairman

Dieter Spälti

Board Member

Ines Pöschel

Board Member

Alcon leadership demographics

Alcon gender distribution in management team

  • The Alcon executive team is 33% female and 67% male.
  • Alcon is 41% female and 59% male company-wide.
Male
Male
67%
Company-wide: 59%
Female
Female
33%
Company-wide: 41%

Alcon executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Alcon executive officers is White.
  • 65% of the management team is White.
  • 12% of Alcon's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Asian.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 52% of employees are White.
  • 20% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 13% of employees are Black or African American.
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Pros of working at Alcon

i created my department and i know all the in and out the people her are a great team to work for

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Alcon benefits

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