William D. Perez succeeded William Wrigley, Jr. II as CEO of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the world's largest chewing-gum manufacturer. He is the first person outside the Wrigley family to head the 116-year-old company.
Previously, he succeeded Phil Knight as CEO of Nike, Inc and served from November 2004 until his announcement on January 23, 2006 that he was resigning from Nike due to disagreements with Nike founder and chairman Philip Knight over how to run the company. Previous to his position at Nike, Perez worked for eight years as president and CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son.
Bill Perez received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a graduate degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
My first job was in Cleveland, it was a great starting experience for me and I've lived through three different worlds. The world of S. C. Johnson, a family owned company, wild world the Nike business where we literally just did it everyday and where they had a very interesting founder and then I'v...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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