Pamela Bailey

Pamela Bailey

President & Chief Executive Officer Grocery Manufacturers Association

Pamela G. Bailey is president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). GMA represents the world’s leading food, beverage and consumer products companies. The association promotes sound public policy, champions initiatives that increase productivity and growth and helps to protect the safety and security of the food supply through scientific excellence. The GMA board of directors is comprised of chief executive officers from the association’s member companies. The $2.1 trillion food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry employs 14 million workers, and contributes over $1 trillion in added value to the nation’s economy.

Prior to joining GMA, Bailey was president and CEO of the Personal Care Products Council (formerly the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association) from April 2005 to January 2009. She served as president and CEO of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) from 1999 to 2005. When the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), an organization of more than 50 healthcare industry chief executives, was founded in 1988, Bailey was named its president and CEO, a post she held until 1999.
 
In the 1970’s and ‘80’s, Bailey served in the White House for three U.S. Presidents. She rose from a research assistant to the President to assistant director of the Domestic Council, with responsibilities for the President’s health, welfare and aging policies. In 1983 she served as special assistant to the President and deputy director of the White House Office of Public Affairs. At the White House she initiated the Office of Communications Planning and led it in 1984 and 1985.
 
From 1975 to 1981, Bailey was director of government relations for the American Hospital Supply Corporation. In 1981, she was nominated by President Reagan and confirmed by the Senate to serve as assistant secretary for public affairs for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
 
In 1987, she was named president of the National Committee for Quality Health Care (NCQHC).
 
Bailey is currently a director of Greatbatch Technologies, Inc. and MedCath Corporation. She also serves on the board of GS1 US and is vice chair of the Partnership for Food Safety Education. She is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100, a network of leading association executives. From 1997 to 2006, Bailey was a director of the American Stores Company and Albertsons, Inc.
Bailey is a Trustee of Franklin and Marshall College and is a Trustee Emeritus of the Holton-Arms School.
 
Born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania, she is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College (A.B., 1970). She is married and has five children.