You are known as a man who gets results, whether in reorganizing businesses, leading cultural boards, or helping to rejuvenate the north Berkshire economy. Early success as president of two paper companies led to the challenge to diversify the world’s largest private phosphate and potash producer, as president and then chairman of International Minerals and Chemicals, which later became Mallinckrodt Group Inc., both Fortune 250 companies. This astuteness has led to positions on the boards of such corporations as Kemper National, Scotsman Industries, and American National Can. Always eager to contribute to the broader good of your community, you have helped lead Children’s Memorial Medical Center and Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the National Commission Against Drunk Driving, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Fortunate are we in north Berkshire that you now consider this one of your homes and so have been blessed to experience first-hand the Kennedy magic—that unique combination of hard drive and human touch that wins all sides over to working for the common good. Berkshires Capital Investors, which you led in forming, has already helped energize the business community, enabling it to think for the first time in memory of new possibilities and of job growth.
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