John F. Manfredi

Managing Partner

Manloy Associates

Mendham, NJ 

John F. Manfredi is Managing Partner of Manloy Associates, strategic consulting and communications group, and co-author of the best-selling book, Doing What Matters  -  How to Get Result That Make A Difference.  He is one of the executives who turned around two global consumer products companies – Nabisco and Gillette. 

As executive vice president in charge of investor relations and many other units for Nabisco, Mr. Manfredi helped raise the funds necessary to finance the huge LBO debt that resulted from the famed assault of the “barbarians.”  He then worked to jump-start Nabisco after its shaky Initial Public Offering.

Mr. Manfredi moved to the Gillette Company with his co- author, James M. Kilts, the famed turnaround specialist.  Working together, they reestablished Gillette’s credentials with Wall Street and the media.  Mr. Manfredi was one of the few executives to deal with Procter & Gamble on the mega-merger of Gillette with P&G, the largest ever in the consumer products sector.

Mr. Manfredi has led a number of industry initiatives in the United States and worldwide as chairman of the Commission on Marketing & Advertising of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris and of the International Food Information Council in Washington, D.C.

His community and professional activities include more than a decade serving as chairman of the United States Olympic Committee in New Jersey and as a member of the boards for the United Way of New England, the Foundation for Teaching Economics in San Francisco and the Arthur Page Society.

Mr. Manfredi schooled at Yale College and Columbia University, where he received his B.A. and did graduate studies.