Since 1989, Stanley Bergman has been chairman of the board and CEO of Henry Schein, a Fortune 500® company and the world’s largest provider of healthcare products and services to office-based dental and medical practitioners, with more than 19,000 Team Schein Members and operations or affiliates in 31 countries and territories. Henry Schein is a member of the S&P 500® index. In 2020 the company’s sales reached $10.1 bn. Henry Schein has been a Fortune World’s Most Admired Company for 20 consecutive years.

Bergman serves as a board member or adviser for numerous institutions including the New York University College of Dentistry, the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the University of the People, the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, the University of the Witwatersrand Fund, the World Economic Forum’s Healthcare Governors, the Business Council for International Understanding and the Metropolitan Opera. He is an honorary member of the American Dental Association and the Alpha Omega International Dental Society. 

He is the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the CR Magazine Corporate Responsibility Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2017 CEO of the Year award by Chief Executive, honorary doctorates from the University of the Witwatersrand, Western University of Health Sciences, Hofstra University, AT Still University’s Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health, Case Western Reserve University and Farmingdale State College, and honorary fellowships from King’s College London Dental Institute and the International College of Dentists.

Bergman, his wife Dr Marion Bergman and their family are active supporters of organizations fostering the arts, higher education and cultural diversity, as well as grassroots healthcare and sustainable entrepreneurial economic development initiatives in the US, Africa and other developing regions of the world.

Bergman is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and is a South African chartered accountant and a NYS certified public accountant.