Miles D. White
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Abbott
Miles White joined Abbott in 1984, was named chief executive officer in 1998, and became
chairman of the board in 1999.
In addition to his responsibilities at Abbott, Mr. White serves on the board of directors
of Motorola Inc. He is chairman of the board of trustees of The Field Museum and sits
on the boards of the Museum of Science and Industry, the Joffrey Ballet, and the Lyric
Opera of Chicago.
He is a trustee of Northwestern University and the Culver Educational Foundation. In
addition, he is a member of the international advisory council of the Guanghua School
of Management at Peking University and vice chairman of the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid.
Mr. White earned a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and an
MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.