BOB MALOTT

MALOTT, ROBERT H. 'BOB'

Hometown:  Lawrence, KS
Born 1926

1944:  Lettered

Robert Malott is the former chairman and chief executive officer of FMC Corporation, based in Chicago. He serves on the Board of the Henry Company, and formerly was on the Boards of Amoco Corporation, Bell & Howell, United Technologies Corporation, and Sovereign Specialty Chemical Corp., Manchester Tank, and Graco Children’s Products. He is Trustee Emeritus of the American Enterprise Institute and a Trustee of the University of Chicago. Mr. Malott is on the Boards of the Hoover Institution (former chairman), the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the Kidney Cancer Association. Until recently, he served on the Boards of the Public Broadcasting Service, the National Park Foundation, the Argonne National Laboratory, and was the former chairman of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He is a graduate of Kansas University and Harvard Graduate School of Business and attended NYU Law School. He has three children, Elizabeth Malott Pohle, Barbara Malott Kizzian, and R. Deaive Malott and resides in Wilmette, Illinois.

Under the guidance of Robert Malott, FMC's managers became more involved in policy debates and politics. Born in Boston in 1926, Malott spent some years in the Navy, and received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1948. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Malott served as assistant to the dean of the Advanced Management program at the school. He joined FMC in 1952, serving as controller, then assistant division manager and manager of the Organic Chemicals Division. In 1968 he became executive vice president of planning and a member of the president's office. In 1970 Malott was named executive vice president of the Machinery Divisions, and in 1971 he was elected president and CEO of FMC. Malott took an active role in corporate boards, trade associations, and civic and public policy research organizations. He retired as CEO and chairman of the board in 1991. Malott served as a director and chairman of the executive committee until 1997.

Family of former chancellor Malott pledges $1 million, 2/20/2002