John D. Stanley, Esq.

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer (Retired), Air Products

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John D. Stanley, Esq., has been a member of the Lehigh Valley Health Network Board of Trustees since 2011. He is the retired Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Air Products. In this role, he was responsible for the company’s law, corporate secretary, corporate risk, information technology, global business support services, human resources, communications, government relations, mergers and acquisitions and corporate security functions. He also served as the company’s chief compliance officer. Mr. Stanley joined Air Products in 1988 as an attorney in the Law Group. In 1997, Mr. Stanley became group counsel to the Chemicals Group and in 2000 took on the additional responsibilities of senior mergers and acquisitions lawyer for the Law Group. In 2004, he assumed the position of assistant general counsel, corporate and commercial, with responsibility for the overall management and delivery of legal services from the Law Group’s corporate and commercial section in the Americas. In 2007, Mr. Stanley’s role expanded to include legal activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and he assumed the title of assistant general counsel, Americas and Europe. He was appointed senior vice president and general counsel in 2009, with oversight for the company’s law, corporate secretary and government relations functions, and assumed responsibility for human resources and communications in 2011. He was named chief administrative officer in January 2013 upon assuming oversight of the company’s IT, M&A and shared services organizations. Mr. Stanley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Lafayette College and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he served on the Law Review and graduated with honors. Prior to joining Air Products, Mr. Stanley served a federal judicial clerkship with the Honorable Norma Shapiro and practiced employment law at Drinker, Biddle and Reath in Philadelphia. Mr. Stanley currently serves on the boards of DeSales University, the Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Authority (Vice-Chairman), Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, the Lehigh Valley Partnership and the Community Music School Endowment Fund, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Downtown Allentown Community Development Initiative and chairs the Advisory Council for Building 21.