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Robert B. Ford CEO
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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
Elite Leadership IMPACT Award 2020 for COVID-19 response
CEO Today Top 50 recognition
East Bay Innovation Award (team recognition, 2015)
Crain's Chicago Business Who's Who 2024
Chief Executive CEO1000 Tracker #106 ranking
Notable Facts
Chairman & CEO of Abbott Laboratories, a Fortune 100 healthcare technology company
Led Abbott's COVID-19 testing response, delivering 400+ million tests in 2020
23-year Abbott veteran who joined in 1996, rose through ranks
Age 51, earned MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Led integration of St. Jude Medical acquisition in 2017, Abbott's largest at the time
Has Wikipedia page and regular major media appearances
Involved with Business Roundtable, Economic Club of Chicago
Compensation of approximately $24.3 million in 2024
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