Dean Butler has been awarded the Proctor & Gamble McElroy Award for 2019
Dean Butler has been awarded the Proctor & Gamble McElroy Award for 2019.
Having been director of Eyeto since 2015, Butler was the founder of LensCrafters in the USA in 1983 and Vision Express in 1998.
The award panel described Butler as a visionary leader and that he brought pioneering changes to the US retail eyewear market.
Carl D Francis, Eyoto’s CEO said: ‘Dean Butler created the global optical retail industry as we know it today, and we are deeply honoured that he has chosen to sit on our board of directors for the past four years. He sees the changes and trends in our industry like no one else and has been an essential part of our journey to commercialize our technology.’