AG Lafley keynote speaker

Alan George Lafley is a Special Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. He joined the firm on April 9, 2010. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Procter & Gamble Co. of Gillette Co. from 2000 to June 2009. Mr.Lafley joined Procter & Gamble Co. in 1977.

Since July 1, 2009 and served as it's Executive Chairman since July 1, 2002. Mr. Lafleyhas been an Independent Director of General Electric Company of GEFS (Suisse) AG since 2002. He has been an Independent Director of General Electric Co., holding company of GE Capital Bank since 2002. He has been a Director of Dell Singapore Pte. Ltd. since July 2006. He served as Director of Procter & Gamble Co, from July 1, 2009 to February 25, 2010. He served as a Director of Dell Inc. from 2006 to July 17, 2009. He served as Executive Director of Procter & Gamble Co, since June 8, 2000. Mr. Lafley served as an Executive Director of Procter & Gamble Co. since June 8, 2000. He served as a Director of General Motors Corp. from 2002 to April 22, 2005.

He is a Member of The Business Roundtable, The Business Council, G100, the Boards of Trustees of Hamilton College and Xavier University, and the Lauder Institute Board of Governors (Wharton School of Arts & Sciences), the Business Roundtable and the Business Council. He serves as Director of United Negro College Fund. He served as a Director of Grocery Manufacturers Association. He was named "CEO of the Year" by Chief Executive Magazine in 2006, "Executive of the Year" by the Academy of Management in 2007, and "Leader of the Future" by the Peter F. Drucker Leader to Leader Institute in 2008. He is the recipient of the U.S. Navy's Lone Sailor Award (2008), the Diversity Best Practices CEO Diversity Leadership Award (2008), the Peterson Award for Business Statesmanship (2009), and the Edison Achievement Award for Innovation (2010). Mr. Lafley received an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1977 and a B.A. Degree in History from Hamilton College in 1969.

He is a business leader with over 50 years of experience including large Fortune 50 public companies, private start-ups, Non-Profits and public/private partnerships.

He is also a teacher and a writer with a practical approach to business strategy, management and leadership who coaches and mentors others to become more effective and more successful. He serves as a catalyst to help aspiring leaders become the best they can be.

AG is also a non-profit leader and a philanthropist who wants to make a positive and lasting impact on the community in which he lives and works.

He believes great leaders are made, not born and that anyone can learn to become a better business leader or strategist. The best leaders are lifetime learners who continue to search for concepts and principles, best practices and processes that make them, their team, their organization and the company better.

While his primary focus and interest remains business leadership, he has become increasingly interested and involved in non-profit leadership and philanthropy. AG has always believed in being the change you want to see in the community in which you live and work and he carries that belief with him today.