James C. Morgan
James C. Morgan has worked extensively in the worlds of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
He ran Applied Materials Inc. for nearly three decades-one of the longest tenures of any Fortune 500 CEO. The company was near bankruptcy when he joined; when he retired as CEO in 2003, Applied was a multi-billion-dollar global leader with more than 15,000 employees. Quite an achievement for a former Cayuga, Indiana, farm boy who grew up herding cows, harvesting corn, and working in his...
