016 016 012 Vittorio Tabacchi is not only the founder and main shareholder of Italian eyewear manufacturer Safilo, he is also the President of both MIDO and ANFAO which organizations profit from his long time experience in the industry. Safilo has a yearly sales of more as 1 billion euro. The company’s CEO Roberto Vedovotto used to work for Safilo earlier and returned after a few years with Lehman Brothers were he was the Chairman of the European Luxury Goods in the Investments Banking Division. According to the press releases he has got all freedom to find a way to solve Safilo’s financial problems and lead the company into a more promising future. 014 Vistakon’s CEO Michael Sneed started his career with Johnson & Johnson in 1983 and held positions of increasingly responsibility ever since. In January 2007 he was appointed as CEO of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care. 015 HOYA Vision Care is the world’s third largest supplier of lenses and the absolute market leader in Japan. Gerald W. Bottero has been President and CEO of HOYA Vision Care since 2005 after a career with HOYA in the United States. 016 Rick Elias has been part of Transitions Optical since its inception, first as VicePresident Marketing and Sales and since 1995 as President and CEO. Brett Craig joined Transitions Optical in 1999 as General Manager Asia Pacific. After being responsible for the EMEA region, he became COO and in 2009 he was appointed President of the company. 015
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