Leonard Berry

Leonard L. (Len) Berry (born 1942) is a distinguished professor of marketing at Texas A&M University and a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Berry is a past president of the American Marketing Association. He has studied service delivery in healthcare at the Mayo Clinic and in cancer care settings.

Berry earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Denver and a Ph.D. at Arizona State University. A longtime professor at Texas A&M University, Berry founded the school's Center for Retailing Studies in 1982 and directed it for 18 years. In 1983, Berry coined the term relationship marketing, which emphasizes the need for organizations to maintain (rather than simply acquire) customers.

He is the University Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Regents Professor at Texas A&M University. He holds the M. B. Zale Chair in Retailing and Marketing Leadership in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M. He has studied healthcare service improvement in association with the Mayo Clinic and as a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Much of Berry's work has focused on service delivery in cancer care.

Berry and his wife established the Berry-AMA Book Prize for the Best Book in Marketing for the American Marketing Association (AMA). He is a past recipient of the AMA/Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator award. He is on the board of directors for the Nemours Foundation.

Berry has served on the board of directors of Genesco since 1999.

His son, Matthew Berry, is a fantasy sports analyst for ESPN.