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Robert W. Pangia '73 To Be Honored By Ivy Football Association
12/9/2016 12:00:00 AM | Football
Providence, R.I. - Robert W. ("Bob") Pangia '73, who has had a long and diverse career in business with four decades of experience as an entrepreneur, in general management, healthcare, investment banking and private equity, will be honored by the Ivy Football Association on January 26, 2017 at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York City.
Also honored at the event are representatives from the other seven Ivy schools, including Javier Loya (Columbia '91), Joseph Holland (Cornell '78), Thomas Clarke, M.D. (Dartmouth '66), Michael Corbat (Harvard '83), John Doman (Penn '66), Robert Casciola (Princeton '58) and Gary Fencik (Yale '76).
The Ivy Football Association was founded in 2000 to honor and celebrate Ivy League football and its rich tradition of producing many graduates who have become leaders in their chosen fields or professions, including government, law, medicine, business, the arts, education, and religion. It applauds how football fits into the overall educational process and college experience, as well as how the game is played in the Ivy League. The Ivy Football Association's biennial dinner honors eight distinguished graduates of the Ivy League institutions.
Pangia was recently CEO of Ivy Sports Medicine, a company involved in providing products for treatment of knee injuries, which was sold to Stryker Corporation in August 2016.
In 2002, along with Dr. Russell F. Warren Columbia '62), a 2001 Ivy League Football Association Honoree, and his son, Rusty Warren, a 1989 Princeton graduate, founded Ivy Capital Partners, a private equity firm dedicated to investments in the orthopedics/musculoskeletal space with a focus on sports medicine.
From 1987 to 1996, Pangia worked at PaineWebber Incorporated, (currently UBS), where he served as Executive Vice President and head of that firm's Global Investment Banking business. Pangia also held a number of other senior management positions including: member of the Board of Directors, PaineWebber, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PaineWebber Properties Inc., member of PaineWebber's Executive and Operating Committees, Chairman of the Equity Commitment Committee, and member of the Debt Commitment Committee.
During his career in investment banking Pangia was very active in the biotechnology industry as a financier and director. He has been involved with the financings of several start-ups and early stage companies that grew into global businesses including Amgen, Centocor and Genzyme. Prior to joining PaineWebber, Pangia was Managing Director of Investment Banking for Drexel Burnham Lambert of New York and Vice President of Investment Banking for Kidder, Peabody & Co. of New York.
Pangia currently serves as a Director of Biogen Corporation, where he is Chairman of the Compensation and Management Development Committee. He has also served as a director of McAfee Inc., until its acquisition by Intel, ICOS Corporation, until its acquisition by Eli Lilly Corporation, Athena Neurosciences, and Ryan, Beck Corporation. Pangia was also a director of National Healing Corporation until its acquisition by Morgan Stanley Ventures.
Born the youngest of three children in to a working class family in Brooklyn, New York, Pangia was an outstanding student athlete at Monsignor Farrell High School in Staten Island, New York, where he was co-captain of the '68 football team that began "the streak" of a five year undefeated run for the Lions. In 2013, Pangia was inducted into the Monsignor Farrell High School Hall of Fame.
Pangia received an A.B. in Economics from Brown University in 1973. He was co-captain of the football team, was named to the All-Ivy team in 1971 and was the recipient of the War Memorial Trophy awarded to the player who "through sportsmanship, performance and influence contributed most to the sport at Brown." Bob was a Beta Gamma Sigma MBA graduate of the Columbia Business School in 1977.
Bob serves as financial advisor to United Family & Children's Society, a New Jersey based social services organization and has been a significant supporter of Angels To Angels Sierra Leone, an organization which promotes educational opportunity for girls in that impoverished country. He lives in New York City with his wife of 43 years, Stephanie. They have four children and two grandchildren.
For more information about the Ivy Football Association dinner please contact info@ivyfootballassociation.org
