Kerry Bradley

Kerry Bradley is the COO of Luxottica Retail North America, which includes LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut and EyeMed Vision Care. LensCrafters is the largest retailer of eyewear and related services in the world. They innovated the one-stop, full service, eyewear outlets that make glasses in about an hour. They have been a leader in the industry ever since. Sunglass Hut is the world leading seller of sunglasses.

For Kerry it nearly didn’t happen. While a college student at Auburn University, Kerry contemplated and even planned his own suicide. He took seriously the ramifications of the god-less world view he was being taught in one of his courses. Without God, life is meaningless. A meaningless life is not worth living.

Fortunately, a “voice of reason” kept him from going through with it, and in fact it spurred him to re-explore and reaffirm the Christian faith of his youth. That same voice has been guiding him ever since.

After gradating “summa cum laude” from Auburn and earning a masters degree in Business from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, he worked for Proctor & Gamble and 20/20 Research, a marketing research and consulting firm. Then in 1988 he joined LensCrafters. He worked his way from Director of Marketing, to Executive VP of Marketing and Strategic Planning, and finally to COO of all the Luxottica retail divisions.

He is married to Laura and has three teenage children. He is active in Hope Church, Mason, Ohio, and enjoys music and college football, especially the Auburn Tigers!