Ron zarrella biography

pharmaceutical executive

Ronald L. Zarrella, American pharmaceutical executive.

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Member of Rochester Institute of Technology, Communications for Economic Development, National Italian Foundation.

Background

Zarrella, Ronald L. was born in 1949 in Waterbury, CT.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1971.

Student, New York University Graduate School Business, New York City.

Career

With Bristol Myers Company, Esmark Corporation. Executive Bausch & Lomb Inc., 1985—1994. Vice president, Northern American Vehicle Sales General Motors Company, 1994—1998, executive vice president General Motors N. American, 1998—2001.

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Bausch & Lomb Inc., Rochester, New York, 2001—2008, chairman emeritus, since 2008.

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