Albert J. Weatherhead III is the chairman and CEO of Weatherhead Industries, the parent company of Weatherchem, a private manufacturer of plastic closures for food, spice, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical products.

Mr. Weatherhead has sixty years of experience in the plastics and metalworking industries and is the recipient of various U.S. and Canadian patents for metal-working processes and plastic products.

In February 1980, Case Western Reserve University's Board of Trustees passed a resolution renaming the School of Management the Weatherhead School of Management to honor four generations of Weatherheads and their leadership in business and industry. The resolution followed a $3M gift, and so came the founding of the school as it is known today.

Mr. Weatherhead's involvement with Case Western Reserve University goes beyond the naming of the business school. He is an Honorary Trustee and Emeriti Trustee of the University and has served on the Case Board of Trustees and the Weatherhead Visiting Committee. Mr. Weatherhead also has three endowments within the Weatherhead School of Management including the C.J. & A. J. Weatherhead III Endowment Fund, the Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Management, and the Weatherhead Endowment Fund.

Since 1987, he has been the president of the Weatherhead Foundation, a family establishment that focuses on higher education endowments. For more than twenty years, the Foundation has generously supported our institution as well as Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Texas-Houston.

He recently pened the inspirational piece, The Power of Adversity: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better (Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2008) and is also the author of The New Age of Business (Ohio University Press, 1956) and John Parker Lindsay: A Study in Firepower (American Society of Firearms Collectors Press, 1971).