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Keynote Module 1
Robert E. Grant, 47, is the Founder and Vice Chairman ALPHAEON Corporation (a subsidiary of Strathspey
Crown Holdings LLC), a leader in the rapidly growing field of Lifestyle Healthcare and based in Irvine, CA.
He is concurrently the Chairman and Managing Partner of Strathspey Crown LLC, a growth equity firm based in
Newport Beach, CA. Robert also serves as Vice Chairman of Strathspey Crown's principle operating company
focused in lifestyle healthcare, ALPHAEON Corporation.
He was formerly CEO and President of Bausch and Lomb Surgical in June of 2010. Prior to this, he led Allergan
Medical as President from 2006 to 2010.
Mr. Grant currently serves on several corporate boards. He is an independent Board Director at Myoscience,
Inc., Acufocus, Inc. and ReShape Medical, Inc. All are leading lifestyle healthcare companies. Additionally, he
serves as Chairman of Crown Sterling LLC, an investment banking subsidiary of Strathspey Crown.
Additionally, He sits on the boards of the following university and charitable organizations: The Schmid College
of Chapman University, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) CEO Roundtable Steering Committee, The
School of Law at UCI, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, OCTANe (501-C3 non-profit entity) an
economic development corporation for technology companies in Orange County, California where he is the
sitting Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the Young President’s Organization (YPO/WPO) Southern
California Chapter where he has served as the Education Chair.
Mr. Grant holds a BA from Brigham Young University and an MBA (graduating with Honors) from Thunderbird, The
American Graduate School of International Management. Additionally, he has attended the President’s Seminar at Harvard
Business School ('09-'13). He has lived and worked in nine countries and speaks Japanese, French, Korean and German
fluently.