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Brent Saunders

Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, Bausch + Lomb Corporation

Search every verified Brent Saunders interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Brent Saunders, Chairman and CEO of Bausch + Lomb, discussed the company's focus on innovation in eye care, including Project Halo, a potential breakthrough in contact lens material science aimed at improving all-day comfort. Saunders stated that his motivation comes from "solving problems for people that today are unsolvable," adding that finding a treatment for those who are visually impaired or blind would be "the holy grail" for him. He described his approach to leadership as centered on surrounding himself with talented people, comparing a successful team to a football team where a great quarterback needs a strong line, receivers, and defense to win. Saunders also outlined his strategy for reinvigorating the 172-year-old company, which included investing in talent and research and development. He said he spent his first year working with the head of R&D to recruit scientists and build capabilities, which gave him the confidence to stop incremental innovations and make larger investments in more ambitious programs.

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“For the last several quarters, we've been the fastest growing eye health company versus our competitors and growing faster than the market. And so that's always I think the first KPI you can look at to see if you're getting success. What we now need to do is improve our other financial metrics like margins and profitability. And that's really the goal of the next chapter of our company.”

“For the last several quarters, we've been the fastest growing eye health company and versus our competitors and growing faster than the market. And so that's always I think the first KPI you can look at to see if you're getting success. What we now need to do is improve our other financial metrics like margins and profitability. And that's really the goal of the next chapter of our company.”

“I think if I could make wave a magic wand or ask the government to focus on one thing it would be creating this portable Universal Health record. I think from there you could build a lot of... the interoperability between your record at the hospital when you go for a procedure versus your primary care doctor versus your specialist... these things aren't portable and those systems are in many cases antiquated or propr”

“I always say, if we're going to go buy a capital equipment, we need to go buy something. We have all sorts of forms and business cases and we're going to look at ROI if we want to buy a business or product, we'll do exhaustive analysis. But we go hire somebody, it's just like, okay, we interviewed them, let's hire them. Doesn't make sense to me. That person is more important than any any capital equipment we're going”

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