stryker corp (SYK:New York)

Executive Profile*

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Mr. William U. Parfet, Bill has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at MPI Research Inc. since May 1999. Mr. Parfet serves as Chairman and Member of Executive Committee of Southwest Michigan First, Inc. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Richard-Allan Medical Industries, Inc., from October 1993 to January 1996. From 1972 to 1993, Mr. Parfet held a variety of operating and financial positions at The Upjohn Company (later Upjohn & Pharmacia; ... Pharmacia; now Pfizer). Mr. Parfet served as the President of Board of Upjohn Company from January 1991 to April 1992 and its Executive Vice President from January 1989 to January 1991. He serves as the Chairman of Medicilon-MPI Preclinical Research Shanghai, LLC. He has been Non-Executive Chairman of Stryker Corporation since February 2012. Mr. Parfet has been a Director of Pharmacia Corporation since March 31, 2000. He has been an Independent Director of Taubman Centers Inc., since December 8, 2005. Mr. Parfet serves as a Director of Bissell Inc., Metabolic Solutions Development Company, Flint Ink Corporation, Old Kent Financial Corporation, and Universal Foods Inc., and MPI Research, Inc. He also serves as a Director of Apogent Technologies Inc., Greenleaf Trust, and Reptron Inc. Mr. Parfet serves as a Director of Nature Conservancy. He has been a Director of Stryker Corporation since 1993 and serves as its Lead Independent Director. Mr. Parfet has been a Director of Monsanto Company since June 2000. He serves as a Director of Business Leaders for Michigan. Mr. Parfet has been a Director of Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, LLC since 1985. He serves as a Director of Financial Accounting Foundation Inc. and Southwest Michigan First, Inc. Mr. Parfet served as the Co-Chairman of MPI Research LLC from October 1995 to May 1999. He served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Upjohn Company from April 1992 to September 1993. Mr. Parfet served as a Director of Parexel International Corporation from June 2001 to May 1, 2006. He served as a Director of Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. since November 1995. Mr. Parfet served as a Director of The Nature Conservancy. He served as a Director of CMS Energy Corporation and its subsidiary, Consumers Energy Company from May 1991 to May 20, 2005. Mr. Parfet is the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources from 1996 to 2004. He served as the National Chairman of the Financial Executives Institute (FEI) since 1997. Mr. Parfet served as a Trustee of the Greenbury and Financial Accounting Foundation Inc. He served as a Member of the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF). From 1990 to 1991, Mr. Parfet was a preparer representative to the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF). He was a trustee of Financial Executives International (FEI) from 1992 to 2000. Mr. Parfet served as Trustee of the Michigan Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He received his B.A. (Honors) in 1970 from Lake Forest College with a major in Economics and received his M.B.A. in International Finance from the University of Michigan in 1972.

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