Lou Mattis
Lou is the retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Winthrop, Inc. a global research based pharmaceutical, consumer and household product manufacturing and marketing company and Co-Chairman of Sanofi Winthrop, a global pharmaceutical Joint Venture.
His professional career spanned over three decades of international business leadership from marketing management to start ups in developing countries to general management of businesses in Asia, Europe and Latin America to leadership of a $3 billion global corporation.
He lived and worked in Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, France and New York. He pioneered new concepts of leadership with the approach of Mission and Values long before it became vogue.
He participated in the design and implementation of four major corporate mergers, led several international joint ventures and the conceptualization and execution of a $4 billion multinational alliance which was the first of its kind in the industry.
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Winthrop Inc., he and his team took a slow growth, second tier company with below average profitability and built it into an industry growth company with above average profitability and a leader in many of its fields,
In 1993 he was named “Pharmaceutical Executive of the Year” by Pharmaceutical Executive” magazine and “Outstanding Alumnus” by The A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.
He served as a director of Solomon Brothers Asset Management and on a number of corporate, association, non-profit and philanthropic boards including chairing The Advisory Board of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University; Governor of The Center For Creative Leadership; The National Council for Health Education; The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and The Non-Prescription Drug Manufacturers Association.