Ivan K. Fong — Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel at 3M

Mr. Ivan K. Fong has been Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel at 3M Company since October 15, 2012. Mr. Fong served as the Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Cardinal Health Inc. from November 1, 2005 to May 2009 and served as is Executive Vice President since November 01, 2005. He served as senior vice president and general counsel at General Electric's Vendor Financial Services business, where he managed a wide range of litigation, compliance and public policy matters. He was GE's first Chief Privacy Leader and Senior Counsel, Information Technology, where he led GE's global privacy, Internet and information technology, legal and policy initiatives. Prior to joining GE in 2000, Mr. Fong served as deputy associate attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and was a partner at the law firm Covington & Burling. Mr. Fong also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling, where he specialized in complex civil litigation, white-collar criminal law, intellectual property law and appellate litigation. He was a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He serves as a Trustee of Minnesota Public Radio, Inc. He served as chair of the ABA's Section of Science and Technology Law, a trustee of Stanford University and a director of the Fulbright Association and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). He has been elected to the American Law Institute and is a director of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Central Ohio, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Cardinal Health Foundation, the Columbus Bar Foundation and the Pro Bono Partnership. He is a member of Cardinal Health Long Range Planning Committee and Executive Leadership Team and chairs Diversity and Inclusion Steering Council. He has received the Justice in Action award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Trailblazer award from NAPABA. He is a registered patent attorney, he is admitted to the bars of California (inactive), Connecticut, the District of Columbia and Ohio (corporate status). Mr. Fong holds BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering earned his law degree from Stanford University. He received a B.C.L. with first-class honors from Oxford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar; a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review.