The McCord Lecture featuring Mike Dalton, President of Maui Jim Inc., will take place on Thursday, March 12, from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. in the Peplow Pavilion in the Hayden-Clark Alumni Center. Dalton will speak about "Managing with Aloha."
Dalton joined Maui Jim as president after two decades of experience in the ophthalmic industry in various management positions with RLI Corporation. He is a graduate of the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, which he attended on a hockey scholarship and was the school’s first All-American.
He was president of RLI Vision and the mainland USA distributor for Maui Jim Sunglasses prior to its purchase by Maui Jim in 1996. Since 1996, Maui Jim has grown from a small regional sunglass company to the third-largest sunglass company in the world. From its small office in Maui, Maui Jim today has 13 subsidiaries around the globe and has enjoyed 20 years of double digit growth. Now with more than 900 employees and payrolls in more than 40 countries, Maui Jim truly operates as a small multinational company.
The McCord Lectureship was established by the officers and directors of Illinois Mutual Life and Casualty Company on July 31, 1990, in honor of Robert A. McCord upon his retirement as chairman of the board of the company. The lectureship brings prominent business executives to campus to meet with student groups and business professionals from the community to discuss managerial and organizational applications.
