Donald F. Farley

As president of Farley & Associates, Mr. Farley provides strategic planning, business development direction, and executive mentoring services for private and emerging new businesses. From 1998 to 2009, Mr. Farley was CEO of Spencer Trask Specialty Group where he organized and monitored a portfolio of emerging startup companies in health care, nutrition, and specialty chemicals. He began his career in manufacturing with the Pfizer Chemical Division and progressed through several managerial positions to eventual leadership as president of the Pfizer Specialty Chemicals Group. Mr. Farley led the redirection and transformation of this global business from specialty chemicals into specialty food ingredients and related technical services, resulting in its transition to a new identity as the Pfizer Food Science Group. Subsequent to the divestiture of food science in 1995, Mr. Farley served as President of the Pfizer Consumer Health Care Group, a global over-the-counter drug business.