William Pounds

William Pounds is a professor of management emeritus and a former dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. During the turmoil over Vietnam in the late 1960s, he assumed the unenviable task of leading a review of MIT’s policies on two special research laboratories whose funding came in large part from the US Department of Defense. William F. Pounds Ph.D serves as the Chairman of Management Sciences for Health and North American Management Co. Dr. Pounds served as President of Rockefeller Financial Services from September 1981 to May 1991. He served as Senior Advisor to Rockefeller Family and Associates. He served as the Chairman of Rockefeller & Co., Inc. He served as the Vice Chairman of Putnam Intermediate Government Income Trust. Dr. Pounds served as a Director of M/A-COM, Inc. since 1979. He has served as a Director of PerSeptive Biosystems, Inc. since June 1993. He serves as a Director of EG&G, Inc., Management Sciences For Health, Inc. and Sun Company Inc. He served as a Director of Fisher-Price Inc. and General Mills Inc. He served as a Director of IDEXX Laboratories Inc. since 1990. He is the Chairman of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and an Overseer of WGBH Educational Foundation. Dr. Pounds has been a Professor of Management at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1961. He is a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Pounds is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University. In addition to his roles at MIT—which spanned nearly 50 years—Professor Pounds served for 10 years as senior advisor to the Rockefeller family and as the top executive of a number of their entities, all while remaining as a part-time professor on the MIT faculty and commuting between Boston and New York on a regular basis.