 As a Purdue student, Dave Ricks took classes in Lily Hall of Life Sciences. Today the industrial management grad leads Eli Lilly and company. I'm Dave Ricks, chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly. Lily is a global pharmaceutical company and so my role is to oversee the development, discovery of drugs and global shipment and production of those to patients around the world. I started out in engineering, ended up graduating from Cranard with an industrial management, industrial engineering degree. I remember many of my professors, but maybe the most pronounced one was a professor in Cranard who taught finance here for many, many years. She had a very interesting classroom style and I do remember early in that class, she would cold call frequently on students. I think I had slunk into the back of the class in an early morning and Instillian was awoken with my name and I request to talk about a case we were doing. She kept you on your toes, but I learned a lot from her. She was a great professor here. The giant leap for me was being offered and accepting the role of C.O.V. LaLily and Company, Fortune 200 Company, the biggest private employer in Indiana and a company with a proud, proud history. I still sort of wake up and pinch myself at that. Well, the footprints I hope to leave because I'm early in my position here with Purdue will be two. One is the people we hire and who will carry forward my organization, LaLily, into the future. I'm proud to say that there's more Purdue grads at LaLily than any other school we hire from, almost three times as many as the next school. We hire some good people, but if we can equip our company with great talent from this university for the future, I'll feel very good about that. That will be a footprint. The other is we've set up a research collaboration with Purdue to help us unlock nature's secrets and create better medicines for patients in the future. It stretches across many schools here and it's something I was proud to initiate early in my tenure as CEO and I hope to see products come out of that before I leave this job. Thanks to Purdue, I learned the lesson of hard work. I think that's what sticks out the most. Most people get into Purdue are pretty successful. Purdue will challenge you and so will life and so Purdue really taught me that key lesson. Everything worthwhile takes a lot of hard work. That was Dave Ricks, look for more stories at Purdue.edu slash footprints.