Background
LaBonté, Clarence Joseph was born on September 23, 1939 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Arthur and Alice La Bonté.
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Clarence Joseph LaBonté
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Bachelor of Science, Northeastern U., 1966; AME, Northeastern U., 1968; Master of Business Administration with distinction (Baker scholar), Harvard University, 1969.
Career
With, H.P. Hood & Sons, Boston, 1958-1963;
project engineer, marketing coordinator, Market Forge Company, Everett, Massachusetts, 1963-1967;
with, Allegany Rehabilitation Associates Services, Inc., Philadelphia, 1969-1979;
executive assistant to president, Allegany Rehabilitation Associates Services, Inc., Philadelphia, 1969-1971;
vice president, Allegany Rehabilitation Associates Services, Inc., Philadelphia, 1971-1972;
executive vice president, Allegany Rehabilitation Associates Services, Inc., Philadelphia, 1976-1979;
president, Western Company, Los Angeles, 1972-1976;
president, chief operating officer, director, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Beverly Hills, California, 1979-1983;
chairman, chief Executive officer, The Vantage Group Inc., 1983-1987, 90-;
president, chief operating officer, Reebok International Ltd., Stoughton, Massachusetts, 1987-1990;
also board directors, Reebok International, Stoughton, Massachusetts
chairman, Chief Executive Officer,, Vantage Group, Inc., Palos Verdes, California, 1990-1994;
president, Chief Executive Officer,, Jenny Craig, International, La Jolla, California, 1994-1998;
also board directors, member Executive Committee, Jenny Craig, International, Del Mar, California. Board directors several companies. Founder, president American Business Initiative for Free South Africa, 1990-1995.
Board directors United States-SALEP, Washington. Member committee forecon. development, Washington.
Achievements
Membership
Founding director South African Free Elections Fund, 1993-1994. National board directors Big Brothers American, 1970-1974, president, 1986-1987. Board directors Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, 1990-1994, president, Chief Executive Officer, 1994-1998, Chairman, Board Of Directors.
Trustee Northeastern U., 1974-1995. Member Harvard University Business School Fund, since 1971. Trustee Orthopaedics Hospital, Los Angeles, 1980-1986.
Member Harvard University Business School Association, Husky Associations Northeatern U., Huntington Society, Human Rights Watch (California Executive Committee 1990-1994), Philadelphia Country Club Down Town Club, Vesper Club, Bankers Club San Francisco, 100 of Los Angeles.
Connections
Married Donna Chiaradonna, August 2, 1959. Children: Linda, Joseph.
