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Lawrence D. Kingsley

Chairman, IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pall Corporation

Independent Non-Executive Board Chair

Age: 62

Director since: October 2016

  • Independent Non-Executive Board Chair (since Nov. 2019)
  • Lead Director (May 2018 – Nov. 2019)

Committees:

  • Compensation and Talent
  • Governance and Corporate Responsibility

Other current public company director service:

  • Polaris Industries Inc. (since Jan. 2016)
  • Mirion Technologies, Inc. (since Oct. 2021) (Non-Executive Chair, Oct. 2021-Feb. 2025)

Former public company director service:

  • Rockwell Automation, Inc. (2013 - 2021)
  • Cooper Industries plc (formerly Cooper Industries Ltd.) (2007 - 2012)
  • Pall Corporation (2011 - 2015)
  • IDEX Corporation (2005 - 2011)

Experience

Berkshire Partners LLC

  • Advisory Director (since 2016)

Pall Corporation

  • Chairman (2013 – 2015)
  • Chief Executive Officer (2011 – 2015)

IDEX Corporation

  • Chief Executive Officer (2005 – 2011)
  • Chief Operating Officer (2004 – 2005)

Danaher Corporation

  • Corporate Vice President and Group Executive (March 2004 – August 2004)
  • President of Industrial Controls Group (2002 – 2004)
  • President of Motion Group, Special Purpose Systems (2001 – 2002)

Qualifications

  • Executive Leadership: Substantial experience leading high-technology, high-growth, multinational public companies as Chief Executive Officer of Pall Corporation, a global supplier of filtration, separations and purification products, and IDEX Corporation, a company specializing in fluid and metering technologies.Corporate Strategy: Significant experience guiding strategy and transformation in various public company senior executive positions and on numerous public company boards of directors.
  • Corporate Strategy: Significant experience guiding strategy and transformation in various public company senior executive positions and on numerous public company boards of directors.
  • Operations: Extensive experience overseeing complex business operations, including operational, manufacturing, supply chain and commercial activities, developed over his extensive career as a senior executive at Pall Corporation, IDEX Corporation and Danaher Corporation. 
  • Mr. Kingsley also brings significant international business, financial acumen, corporate governance, human capital management, corporate finance and risk oversight skills and experience to the Board.

Education

  • BS, Industrial Engineering and Management, Clarkson University
  • MBA, College of William and Mary