Ronald O. Perelman is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MacAndrews & Forbes Inc., a company with interests in a diversified portfolio of public and private companies. MacAndrews & Forbes Inc. owns and operates a diverse array of businesses, tapping into the broad expertise of its management team to support the delivery of best in class products and services to end users and consumers all over the world. The principal interests of MacAndrews & Forbes include AM General, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., Harland Clarke, Merisant, Revlon, Inc., Scantron, Scientific Games Corporation, SIGA Technologies, Inc., Valassis, RetailMeNot and vTv Therapeutics LLC.

Over the past four decades, Mr. Perelman has become known as an accomplished industrialist and generous philanthropist. He is recognized as an innovative leader and a major supporter of many of the nation’s most prominent cultural, educational and medical institutions. He has established the Revlon/UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program, Ronald O. Perelman Center for Emergency Services at NYU Langone Medical Center, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center among many others.

Mr. Perelman received a BS in Economics and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in New York City with his wife and is the father of eight children.