Reunion55TH CLASSMATES Then&Now A collection of submitted biographies 55TH CLASSMATES Reunion Then&Now Bill Ausfahl NAME KNOWN BY: Bill MAJOR: Economics ORGANIZATIONS: Order of the Golden Bear, Californians, Megaphone Society HOBBIES & INTERESTS: Visiting 5 granddaughters, golf, travel, anthing Cal, major league baseball, flyfishing, track & field ADVANCED DEGREES: MBA--Stanford LIVING GROUP: Delta Tau Delta PRESENT CITY: Moraga, CA EMAIL::
[email protected] BIOGRAPHY: Born in San Francisco but never lived there. Growing up lived in Berkeley, Richmond, Los Angeles, Boston, and Danville, CA. Went straight from San Ramon High to Cal where my course focus was primarily in economics, political science, and accounting. At a Delt convention in Swampscott I met Trudy---my wife of 49 years. We have three sons and 5 granddaughters ages 4 to 8 spread across the country from Oregon to New York making Grandma & Grandpa frequent travelers. My first job after receiving my MBA in 1963 was working at The Farm’s Business School as an assistant to Dean Ernie Arbuckle. In 1964 I joined Cutter Labs in Berkeley where I became the CFO in 1973. Cutter was acquired by Bayer AG in 1974 and shortly thereafter Bayer also acquired Miles Laboratories in Elkhart, Indiana. I became the CFO for both companies and was part of a team merging the two companies. Technically, I was based in Elkhart but I commuted back and forth to California till the end of 1982 when I joined The Clorox Company, also as CFO, in Oakland. I was CFO and a member of the Board of Directors till I retired in 1998.