Primary Job Title Chairman of the Board Primary Organization 
NanoLumens
Location Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
Donald E. Panoz is a Co-Founder at Mylan.
Dr. Donald ‘Don’ Panoz has had an extraordinary 50-year career of major entrepreneurial successes in fields as far ranging as pharmaceuticals, resorts, motorsports, and wine, starting in 1960 with the co-founding of Mylan Laboratories, one of the world’s leading producers of generic drugs.
After
establishing Mylan Laboratories, Dr. Panoz went on to found Elan Pharmaceuticals, the company that created the transdermal method of medication delivery — the technology that led directly to the development of the nicotine patch. In 1985 Dr. Panoz took Elan Pharmaceuticals public and thereafter set Wall Street records with four consecutive years of 100 percent profit growth.
Following his success in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Panoz turned his attention, and considerable talents, to developing a number of very successful world-class resorts, including the five-star Chateau Elan Winery & Resort in Atlanta, Georgia; the St. Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa in St. Andrews, Scotland; and the Diablo Grand Winery & Resort, Patterson, California.
Not content with revolutionizing two major industries, Dr. Panoz next turned to motorsports, when he joined forces with his son Daniel to create Panoz Auto Development, developer of the critically acclaimed Panoz Esperante high-performance sports car. Their success on the racetrack led to Panoz’s founding of the American Le Mans Series, now the leading sports car series in the world.
