Gerhard
R. Andlinger
Gerhard R. Andlinger, was born January 17, 1931, in
Linz, Austria. He graduated from the Realschule and continued his education
in the United States obtaining his B.A. from Princeton University in 1952
and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1954. He has also received
an honorary doctorate from Bryant College in Rhode Island for his contributions
to international management.
Mr. Andlinger began his career with McKinsey & Co., the well known
management consulting firm, working on a variety of assignments for large
international clients based in the U.S. and Canada.
In 1960, he joined ITT as Director of Planning and Organization for their
worldwide operations. In 1962 he became Group Executive - Far East, headquatered
in Hong Kong. He reorganized and expanded ITT's activities in the Pacific
Basin, as well as serving on the Board of Directors' of NEC and Sumitomo
Electric. While in the Far East, he was elected Corporate Vice President
at age 34, the youngest man ever elected as vice president.
In 1965, Mr. Andlinger assumed responsibility for ITT's Latin America
Operations comprising 22 companies. From headquaters in Buenos Aires,
he managed the successful turnaround of the Latin American Group.
Mr. Andlinger resigned from ITT in 1967 to become Chairman of Esterline
Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange listed electronics and instrumentation
company. In the span of four years, Esterline made more than twenty
acquisitions and increased more than ten times in size.
In 1972 ITT attracted Mr. Andlinger back as Chairman of the Board of one
of its subsidiaries, Levitt & Sons, Inc. Levitt at that time was the
largest American home builder with sales of over $300 Million. In addition,
to building over four thousand units annually in the U.S., Mr. Andlinger
expanded the firm internationally in Puerto Rico, France and Spain.
In 1975 he resigned in order to set up his private investment banking
firm, specializing in leveraged buyouts. With several acquisitions and
a number of partners, the firm was well on its way, when in 1978, ITT
hired Mr. Andlinger back for a third time (a fact unprecedented in the
company's history). He was elected an Executive Vice President of ITT
corporation and President of ITT - Europe. Based in Brussels, he was responsible
for some 360 companies with sales of over $10 billion. Following a change
of corporate chief executives at ITT, Mr. Andlinger returned to his own
firm as chairman in 1979.
Mr. Andlinger has been a trustee of the American Austrian Foundation
since 1990. He has funded the The Andlinger Residency
Exchange Program since its inception and also is the major
donor for the Andlinger Chair for International Medicine at Weill Medical
College of Cornell University.
For more information on Gerhard Andlinger please visit www.gerhardandlinger.com
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