John E. Pepper Jr. (born August 2, 1938) is an American businessman.NNDB
/ref> He served as chief executive officer and/or chairman of Procter & Gamble from 1995 to 2002. He was also CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center,Forbes
/ref> and until 2012 served as the chairman of the board of The Walt Disney Company.Disney biography
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Biography

John E. Pepper Jr. was born August 2, 1938, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School (then Portsmouth Priory) in Rhode Island, then graduated from Yale University in 1960, where he served on the board of the ''

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''. From 1963 to 2003, he served in various positions at Procter & Gamble, including chairman of the board from 2000 to 2002, and CEO. He served as chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors of The Procter & Gamble Company until December 2003. He then served as vice president of finance and administration at Yale University from January 2004 to December 2005. He was a director of The Walt Disney Company beginning in 2006 (chairman from 2007 to 2012) and of

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from 2007 to 2015, a Boston-based restaurant chain that his son John co-founded in 1997. He served as a fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1995 to 2003, including two years as senior fellow, and also served as a member of the advisory committee of the Yale School of Management. He now serves on the board of trustees of Xavier University. He also serves on the boards of Boston Scientific and Motorola. He is a member of the executive committee of the

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, and he sits on the boards of the

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and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. He was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2008. His children include Cincinnati politician David Pepper and North Carolina bluegrass musician Susan Pepper, as well as entrepreneur, labor activist and drone pilot John Pepper and kitesurfer Doug Pepper.

Bibliography

*''What Really Matters'' ( Yale University Press, 2007)

References

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