Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy is an accomplished, results oriented senior leader with over 25 years experience in the eye care industry. Jim began his career at Alcon in 1995 as a Surgical Equipment Manager in Boston. Over the years he held positions of increasing responsibility across all three divisions, Pharmaceuticals, Surgical Devices and Consumer Products/Contact Lenses.

He earned a reputation as a team builder who could turn around an organization or business and consistently meet or exceed expectations and performance plans. In 2002 he and his family moved to the Alcon Ft. Worth Texas Headquarters where Jim started a new Pharmaceutical Hospital Sales Division. In 2005, he was promoted to Director of Regional Marketing and Operations for Alcon’s CAFE Division (Canada, Australia and Far East) where he was responsible for building infrastructure and strategy to accelerate growth. This experience earned him a promotion in 2008 to lead Alcon’s Global OTC/Consumer Products Division.

In 2011, upon the completion of the Novartis acquisition of Alcon, Murphy was again promoted to lead the integration of the Alcon OTC and the Ciba Contact Lens Business. As the VP/GM of this new entity, Murphy seamlessly and successfully grew the U.S. business to over $1 billion in annual sales and delivered double digit growth versus market for three consecutive years.

Following this experience, in 2014, Murphy was then asked to turn around Alcon Japan, the company’s second largest market. As President of Alcon Japan, Jim joined the Alcon Executive Leadership Team and the Novartis Top 200 Leaders group. Here again, his experience across all three of Alcon’s business units proved to be invaluable, achieving or exceeding both financial and organizational objectives for the 5 years he managed the region.

Jim received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Vermont and received a Master of International Management from the University of Denver. After living and traveling much of the world, Jim and his wife Katie now reside on the shoreline of Gloucester, MA. Jim spends his time these days consulting for investors and startups in the eye care industry. For fun he and his wife enjoy traveling, gardening, home renovating and spending time with their two granddaughters.