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Gordon T. Beaham III

	Gordon T. Beaham III
Biography	Describing Gordon Beaham III as a true Renaissance man might be redundant. Trained as an underwater demolition and salvage expert with the U.S. Navy, Beaham earned an MBA from Harvard then successfully operated the family business. Beaham's grandfather founded Faultless Starch-Bon Ami nearly 100 years ago. Taking over in 1960 as the family's fourth generation company manager, Gordon achieved dramatic market growth by reasserting his product's environmentally-friendly qualities in an increasingly environmentally-sensitive market. Beaham gives most of the credit to simply being in the right place at the right time. "What you have to do is lean forward and count on serendipity," he observes. "You have to make as many mistakes as you can because that's what you learn from." A trustee of Midwest Research Institute, Beaham is a director of Students in Free Enterprise, Business Executives for National Security and Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City. He is a member of the Dean's Committee for International Development and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. His professional and organizational memberships range from chairman of the National Parks Conservation Association to Director for the Grocery Manufacturers of America. A trustee of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., he is active in several organizations related to Princeton University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in engineering.
Industry	Consumer goods
Title	Co-Chairman & Co-CEO
Expertise	Marketing
Current Organization	Faultless Starch/Bon Ami Co.
Type of Organization	Manufacturing, distributing
Major Product	Commercial laundry products, lawn and garden hardware
Area of Distribution	International
University/Degree	M.B.A., Harvard Business School
Born	February 2, 1932, Kansas City, Missouri
Affiliations	G.M.A.; B.E.N.S.
Hobbies & Sports	Swimming, golf, grandchildren, chess
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