Announcing the ARA 2024 Holiday Lupper
The Alcon Retirees’ Association Annual Holiday Lupper will be held Friday, December 6th, in the Alcon Crossroads Conference Center (old cafeteria) starting at 11:30am. We will have two distinguished speakers, Ed McGough and Ian Bell. Both are on the Alcon Executive Leadership Team. We will enjoy another excellent buffet lunch starting with appetizers as we arrive. After the presentation, we’ll have our raffle and a trivia game with prizes.
Agenda
11:30 Sign in for members and guests.
12:00 Buffet opens.
12:50 Welcome and Introductions – Pat Cappelletti, President, ARA
1:00 Featured speakers: Ed Mc Gough, SVP GMTO, and Ian Bell, SVP Chief Operating Officer.
2:00 Announcements, Games, Raffle
3:00 Luncheon ends
Reservations & Charges
Email us at ARA-RSVP@alcon-ara.com to make your reservation, no later than November 25th.
If you are bringing a guest, include their name when you RSVP and if they will ride with you.
As usual for our Lupper, there is a $10 charge for members and $15 for guests. If you haven’t paid your $10 dues for 2025, you can do so when you sign in or send your check to:
Alcon Retirees Association
P.O. Box 173416
Arlington, TX 76003-3416
Parking
Parking spaces will be reserved with orange cones as usual across from Tower A. Golf carts will be available to take those who need assistance to the Crossroads Conference Center and back to the parking lot after the program.
Ed McGough is Senior Vice President, Global Manufacturing and Technical Operations for Alcon, a position he has held since January 1, 2008. Mr. McGough joined Alcon in April 1991 as a Manager of Quality Assurance and Regulatory. Following this role, he held various positions at Alcon, including Director of Quality Assurance in Fort Worth North and Director of Operations in Alcon, Puerto Rico. Mr. McGough has also served as Vice President and General Manager of Fort Worth Manufacturing Operations and briefly in the same role over Houston manufacturing. Following this role, he served as Vice President, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Operations.
Ian Bell is Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Alcon, driving excellence in commercial, manufacturing, digital health solutions, and quality and regulatory operations. Prior to assuming this role in 2024, Mr. Bell served as President, Global Business & Innovation since September 2021, overseeing the development of new products across Surgical, Vision Care, and digital health solutions. From January 2019 until September 2021, he was President, International, overseeing the Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, Japan and Latin America and Caribbean markets. He joined Alcon in March 2016 as President of EMEA.
I’m looking forward to seeing you on December 6th.
Pat Cappelletti
President, Alcon Retirees Association
Fall 2024 In HindSight
Please enjoy scrolling through our newly reformatted newsletter. We hope you will like it. Since our summer edition of the newsletter, we have had two luncheons. You’ll find an article and pictures of both in the newsletter. Our final luncheon this year, the Holiday “Lupper”, will be held Friday, December 6th, at the Alcon Crossroads Conference Center (old cafeteria). We’ll get together, enjoy another excellent lunch, a speaker, holiday music, games and a raffle. Watch for details soon!
To view the In HindSight Newsletter from the website, login and choose the Newsletter box, on the right-hand side.
ARA 2024 Luncheon Dates
Please join us for our remaining 2024 programs, at the Alcon Campus, on Fridays: June 7th, September 20th and December 6th (the Annual Holiday Lupper).
ARA Website Information
To access the ARA Members section, you will need an email address and password. Please use your email address that you have previously provided for the ARA roster and the initial password is your respective zip code. Once logged-in, you will have the opportunity to change the password.
We welcome your feedback. Send us an email — if you click Contact at the upper right of the home page, our respective email addresses can be found.
[Important: We have a large number of ARA members for whom we do not have an email address. Thus, if you are unable to sign-in to the member section as instructed above, this mostly likely means we need your email address to record in the database before you can access this section of the website. In this case, please send your name and email address to Pat Cappelletti at ‘pcappelletti@alcon-ara.com’. Many thanks!]
New Alcon retirees ready to join ARA – please proceed to click on the link “Sign Up Today” and fill-in the requested information. Your registration will be reviewed and acknowledged shortly.
