Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> February 2, 2002

Thomas Mac Mahon – Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings (lh)

THOMAS P. MAC MAHON has been Chief Executive Officer of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings since January 1997 and Chairman since April 28, 1996. Prior to his appointment as LabCorp's Chief Executive Officer in 1997, Mr. Mac Mahon was Senior Vice President of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. from 1993 to January 1997 and President of Roche Diagnostics Group and a member of the Executive Committee of Hoffmann-La Roche from 1988 to December 1996. At Hoffmann-La Roche he had been responsible since 1988 for the management of all United States operations of the diagnostic business. As a member of the Executive Committee of Hoffmann- La Roche Inc., his responsibilities included oversight of Roche Biomedical Laboratories (one of LabCorp's predecessor companies), then a subsidiary of HLR Holdings Inc., from 1988 to 1995. Hoffmann-La Roche, Roche Diagnostics Group, and HLR Holdings Inc. are indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Roche Holdings Ltd., an international healthcare concern based in Basel, Switzerland. Mr. Mac Mahon holds a BS in Marketing from St. Peter's College and an MBA in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of the company and

then an overview of what you are doing at the present time?

Mr. Mac Mahon: LabCorp is one of only two national clinical