- 14 February 2007 -

Pall president dies

Abraham Krasnoff, who served as president of Pall Corp for 20 years, has died aged 86. Krasnoff joined Pall as controller in 1951 when there were 20 employees, sales were less than US$250,000 with one product and the company was called Micro Metallic Corporation.

Under his stewardship, Pall grew from a fledgling filter company supplying metal filters for the process industries to a Fortune 500 company serving a broad variety of markets, including health care. During his time at Pall, Krasnoff also held the posts of treasurer, vice president and executive vice president before he was elected President and CEO in 1969.

Krasnoff retired as CEO in November 1989, and then served a three-year term as Chairman. He was also a former Chairman of Long Island University and of the Executive Council of the Conference Board, and was a founding member of the American Business Conference. He was also a governor of the American Stock Exchange for six years.

Abraham Krasnoff was the recipient of over a dozen awards for community and public and was awarded the NYU Madden Award in 1982 and theGitlow award in 1996. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Long Island University in 1985.

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