I am sorry to hear that your dad passed away two years ago. He was such a great person.  RIP

I am a fellow retiree of Johnson & Johnson. I have special memories of Alan and consider him one of the unforgettable characters of my life.  
I first met Alan in the mid 1970s when I was in middle management with J&J South Africa and Alan was CEO of Ethnor in Johannesburg.  Alan was a part time board member of our company.  He returned to the USA around 1977.  By 1982 I had become the CEO of Ethnor and Alan had returned to South Africa as CEO of Janssen which had been spun out of Ethnor.  For about three years we led these two successful companies.  There were still many dependencies so we elected to meet weekly to resolve conflicts.  Most often, our meetings involved an afternoon of golf before we talked business over a drink or two or three.  As I was 20 years younger than Alan and his experience across the globe was far greater than mine, he unknowingly became a mentor to me and I really valued the relationship. Dinners with Alan and Penny were also part of the deal.  After 1985 we went our separate ways with J&J worldwide but stayed in touch throughout.  My memory of Alan  was of a talented executive but one who liked being different. He had a wonderfully wicked sense of humour  and a love of the wild side.  Almost always fun to be with as long as the business was doing well.  I'm sorry that in our retirement years we lived on different sides of the globe because I thought of Alan as a real friend.  A truly unforgettable character.  May he rest in peace.


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Alan S. Poole

13 junio, 1927 – 23 marzo, 2020

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