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Philip B. Whitehead

Director at ATS Automation

Mr. Whitehead is an experienced business leader. He is currently Vice President and Corporate Officer of the Danaher Corporation, a global science and technology company, and Chairman Emeritus of Danaher’s European board. Since joining Danaher in 1992, Mr. Whitehead has held a number of executive and operational roles beginning with Managing Director of Veeder Root Europe. In his current position, he leads Danaher’s mergers and acquisition activity in Europe and supports the corporation’s growth initiatives in selected high-growth markets. Earlier in his career, Mr. Whitehead worked in senior sales and marketing roles at Proctor and Gamble, Hovis Marketing and Unilever. He also operated his own management consultancy business. Mr. Whitehead has a Diploma in Marketing, Accounting and Finance from Bournemouth College, U.K.

Mr. Whitehead is skilled in overseeing businesses, having held CEO/managing director roles at several public and private companies in the U.K. and one in Switzerland. He has operations, manufacturing and lean operations experience through the many roles he has had within Danaher group companies, including Veeder Root, Gems Sensors, and others. Mr. Whitehead’s capital markets experience was gained from his involvement in the listing of Micrelec as a U.K. public company, serving as Chairman of Nobel Biocare whilst it was publicly listed in Switzerland and through the many public to private deals completed as the lead on Danaher’s prolific M&A record where he has been Managing Director of Corporate Development in Europe for the last 20 years. Mr. Whitehead sees his main skill set as lying within sales and marketing where he has held many senior responsibilities, including Brand Manager at Procter and Gamble, National Sales Manager at Unilever, and Marketing Director at Micrelec PLC. Internationally, he has had roles covering many geographies, including EU, South Africa, Australia, Middle East, Russia, Turkey, Hong Kong and parts of Asia and South America.

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