5. Seymour Liebman

Since Seymour Liebman joined Canon U.S.A. as a manager in its accounting department in 1974, he has been on a mission to help shape Canon’s vision, direction and expansion of its products and services. Today, he is executive vice president, chief administrative officer and general counsel of Canon U.S.A., Inc. and a managing executive officer of Canon Inc., the first non-Japanese employee to achieve such a distinction. He is vice chairman of Canon Solutions America, Inc., and also on the Board of Directors of Spartan Bioscience Inc. in Ottawa, Canada and LeukoDx in Israel. Liebman managed the successful opening of the Canon Americas Headquarters in Melville, whose workforce has now grown to almost 1,600 employees. In line with establishing the company as a leader in digital imaging, Liebman is on the Board of Directors of Canon Biomedical, a new and wholly owned subsidiary of Canon which develops, manufactures and markets technologies and solutions that will revolutionize biomedical research and expand Canon technology into other medical fields. In fact, Canon was granted more U.S. patents in 2015 than Microsoft, Google and Apple. Liebman says research and development are a key pillar of Canon’s business model for the future. From his vantage point along the Long Island Expressway in western Suffolk, Liebman is ensuring that Canon U.S.A. will be a driver of the Long Island economy well into the decades to come.