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Dick Levy
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Levy led the company during a period of rapid growth after it was spun off from Varian Associates in 1999. Described as a "hands-on Chief Executive Officer", Levy was known to visit every one of his company"s facilities, and he took steps to empower employees. Under his leadership, the company nearly tripled in size, and now dominates the medical radiation equipment market worldwide.
Levy retired as Chief Executive Officer and was succeeded by Timothy East. Guertin in February 2006.
His "managerial astuteness" was an important element of Varian"s commercial success in the medical field A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Levy graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and received his Doctor of Philosophy in nuclear chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, California.
Married to Susan Lewis Levy since 1964, he began his employment with the Varian companies in 1968. Levy"s compensation in 2004 amounted to $9,540,851 and in 2005 it exceeded $19,320,000, making him one of Silicon Valley"s wealthiest executives.
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Levy has been described as a scientist and businessman of "remarkable vision and tenacious pragmatism" whose work led to the success of the Linac as a medical device, and to significant advances in radiation oncology.
