Lieutenant General (Ret.) David F. Melcher serves as the Chairman of embecta. A graduate of both West Point and Harvard Business School, LTG Melcher provided over 32 years of distinguished service in the U.S. Army, having commanded in both light and heavy divisions, as Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Southwestern Division, and as the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs.
From 2011 to 2015, he served as Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of Exelis Inc., a global aerospace, defense, information and technology services company. Exelis, which was bought by Harris Corporation in 2015, was formerly a division of ITT Corporation that LTG Melcher led for three years before it was spun off as a public company in 2011. In December 2017, LTG Melcher retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aerospace Industries Association, a trade association representing major aerospace and defense manufacturers and suppliers, a position he had held since 2015.
He was an Independent Director at Becton, Dickinson & Company (BD) from 2018 to 2022, and at C. R. Bard Corporation from 2014 to 2017. He also currently serves as an Independent Director at the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) and is on the Board of Managers for GM Defense, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation.