James Clifford Foster is the chairman and chief executive officer of
Charles River Laboratories, Inc.
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc., is an American pharmaceutical company specializing in a variety of preclinical and clinical laboratory, gene therapy and cell therapy services for the Pharmaceutical, Medical device and Biotechnolo ...
, an international company that works on the drug discovery and development process. Charles River Laboratories is the world's largest breeder of animals for use in laboratory experimentation.
Early life
Foster received his
B.A.
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...
from
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois. Founded in 1857 as Lind University by a group of Presbyterian ministers, the college has been coeducational since 1876 and an undergraduate-focused liberal arts i ...
, his
J.D. from
Boston University School of Law, and his
S.M. degree from the
Sloan Fellows
The Sloan Fellows program is the world's first mid-career and senior career master's degree in general management and leadership. It was initially supported by a grant from Alfred P. Sloan, the late CEO of General Motors, to his alma mater, MIT ...
program of the
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...
in 1985.
Career
The son of company founder
Henry Foster, James joined the company in 1976 as vice president of administration and general counsel. He was named president in 1991, chief executive officer in 1992, and chairman in 2000.
He was named the 2003 ''
Forbes
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'' magazine Entrepreneur of the Year.
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External links
Corporate Bio
American health care chief executives
Boston University School of Law alumni
Lake Forest College alumni
Living people
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
MIT Sloan Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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