Education
Yale University.
Yale University.
During his 31-year tenure with McKinsey & Company and beginning in 1973, Mr. Foster was elected principal (1977) and later Senior Partner and Director (1982), a position he maintained for 22 years. He also founded and led McKinsey’s technology and healthcare sectors.
In addition, Mr.
Foster led the multi-decade consulting activities with one of McKinsey’s largest clients, a healthcare company. While at McKinsey & Company, Mr. Foster led a fifteen-year effort to construct and analyze a database to analyze the financial and capital markets records of over 4000 United States. companies.
This effort resulted in Mr.
Foster’s two best selling books, “Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage” (1986) and “Creative Destruction” (2000), which focuses on the relationship between capital formation, innovation and corporate leadership. Mr. Foster is a Director of Trust Company of the West, athenahealth, the Council for Aid to Education, Cardax Pharmaceuticals, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Foster received his Bachelor of Surgery, Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University.
Before leaving McKinsey & Company, Mr. Foster served as founder and Managing Director of McKinsey’s private equity practice. In 1985, Foster co-authored two articles which appeared in the journal Research Management of the Industrial Research Institute (International Republican Institute) titled "Improving the Return on R&Doctorate --- I" and "--- II" which received recognition in 1986 by International Republican Institute with the presentation of the Maurice Holland Award to its authors.
Mr. Foster served as a member of the Board of the Santa Fe Institute from 1994-2004, where he was the primary sponsor of the economics program focusing on finance and trading strategies.
