After graduating with a BBA from Hofstra University, Ralph S. Larsen joined Johnson & Johnson in 1962.

In 1981, he left Johnson & Johnson to serve as president of Becton Dickinson's consumer products division and returned to Johnson & Johnson in 1983 as president of its Chicopee subsidiary.

In 1986, he was named a company group chairman and later that year became vice chairman of the executive committee and chairman of the consumer sector.

He was elected a director in 1987 and served as chairman of the board and CEO from 1989 to 2002.

-- Bio source: SEC proxy statements

Robert J. Swieringa received a BA degree from Augustana College, an MBA in accounting and economics from the University of Denver and a PhD in accounting and complex organizations from the University of Illinois.

He taught accounting at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University before serving as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board from 1986 to 1996.

He was then a professor in the practice of accounting at Yale's School of Management from 1996 to 1997 and was the ninth dean of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management from 1997 to 2007.

-- Bio source: SEC proxy statements