Former Bausch & Lomb CEO Speaks, Nov. 7

September 15, 2009

Nazareth College’s Casa Italiana is proud to announce Ronald L. Zarrella as this year’s speaker at the annual Mancini Lecture. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on November 7 at the Callahan Theater located in the Nazareth Arts Center, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, N.Y., 14618.

Zarrella served at Bausch & Lomb as the company’s chairman and chief executive officer from 2001 to 2008. He also spent seven years with General Motors Corporation as executive vice president and president of General Motors North America in Detroit. He’ll discuss his experiences in the senior leadership of the two iconic companies along with strategies that led to expansive growth, the management of crises, and the decision making around some of the critical, long-term choices facing these companies. He will also share his views on the state of corporate governance, short-term thinking and the impact of Wall Street on American companies and the competitiveness of America in the global economy.  For more information, call the Casa Italiana at (585) 389-2468.

Zarrella is influential among the Italian American population. He served on the board of directors for The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the heritage and culture of Americans of Italian decent. He is also currently an active member of the community serving on the board of directors for Committee for Economic Development in Rochester and the University of Rochester Medical Center, vice chair of the board at Rochester Institute of Technology, and is chairman emeritus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s board. He has also served on the boards of John Hopkins Medicine, Rochester Museum and Science Center and the Detroit Symphony.

The Mancini Lecture is supported by the Mancini Charitable Foundation, established in 1989 to honor the late Joseph Mancini, a Rochester industrialist and founder of the Casa Italiana. The program features Italians and Italian Americans who are leading public servants, industrialists, and statesmen.

Founded in 1924, Nazareth College is a coeducational college with undergraduate and graduate studies in the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs in health and human services, education, and management. The College is located on 150 scenic acres near Rochester, New York, and currently enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students. Nazareth has a strong commitment to experience-based learning and civic engagement. In the past decade, Nazareth has produced 18 Fulbright recipients and two Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships. For more information on the College, visit www.naz.edu.

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