They cited three previous cases where courts ruled such questions are «relevant and probative» when they concern a defendant's actions in the context of a securities fraud prosecution, including
that of pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, whom Agnifilo represented.
Not exact matches
Other than looking for a new CEO — the company announced on Monday its top
executive Michael Pearson was stepping down — the troubled
pharmaceutical company's most pressing problem is its debt,
of which it has $ 30 billion.
John Hammergren, chief
executive of pharmaceutical giant McKesson, made a killer $ 131 million in 2012, compared to the paltry $ 40 million that Frank Stronach, Canada's highest paid (ex) CEO, got.
Michael «Mike» Pearson, chairman and chief
executive officer
of Valeant
Pharmaceuticals International Inc., left, speaks as Howard Schiller, former interim chief
executive officer and former chief financial officer
of Valeant
Pharmaceuticals, center, and William «Bill» Ackman, founder and chief
executive officer
of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, listen during a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on Valeant
Pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, April 27, 2016.
His clients include
executives and business leaders in a broad range
of industries, including all varieties
of financial services (securities and commodities trading and sales, banking, investment and hedge funds), automobile manufacturing and sales, professional sports agency,
pharmaceuticals, and high technology.
«Together with safe sex practice, early diagnosis, and access to treatment, we expect that PrEP will significantly reduce HIV transmission rates in New Zealand,» Sarah Fitt, the chief
executive of New Zealand's public
pharmaceutical management agency Pharmac, told Stuff.
The Swiss
pharmaceuticals giant Novartis is set to get a new chief
executive in the form
of Vasant Narasimhan, after Joseph Jimenez announced his upcoming retirement.
Also called before the committee was the chief
executive of Valeant
Pharmaceuticals, which has pledged to end its dependence on sharp price hikes.
Almost all
of TGaS's employees are senior - level
executives who came to the company after years
of experience in the
pharmaceutical industry.
After our January edition went to print, Cindy Whitehead stepped down as chief
executive of Sprout
Pharmaceuticals.
It wasn't hard to generate a qualified pool
of applicants, he added, because the ongoing M&A frenzy in the
pharmaceutical sector has left a lot
of competent
executives on the sidelines after their companies were acquired.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he is nominating Alex Azar, a former top
executive at U.S.
pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, to be the next Secretary
of the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Prior to this, he was Chief Business Officer
of Akarna Therapeutics, and negotiated its acquisition by Allergan in 2016 for up to $ 1.2 B. Previously, he served as a senior
executive at Ardea Biosciences (acquired by AstraZeneca), Xencor, X-Ceptor Therapeutics (acquired by Exelixis) and Aurora Biosciences (acquired by Vertex
Pharmaceuticals).
Bruce brings to Humana a wide range
of executive leadership experience in publicly traded and private organizations within a variety
of healthcare sectors, including oncology,
pharmaceuticals, assisted living / senior housing, home care, physician practice management, surgical centers and dental networks.
After Trump made equivocal comments about who was to blame for violence at rallies held by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville over the weekend, Ken Frazier, the chief
executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck, resigned from Trump's manufacturing council Monday.
Martin Shkreli, the Turing
Pharmaceuticals LLC
executive who drew criticism in August over a dramatic jump in a prescription drug price, made headlines Thursday for a different kind
of price increase: a seven-fold surge in the shares
of a microcap
pharmaceutical company.
Long before Martin Shkreli was arrested in New York Thursday morning on securities fraud charges, the outspoken, 32 - year - old chief
executive officer
of Turing
Pharmaceuticals AG had made himself famous.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — February 5, 2018 — FLX Bio, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development
of oral small molecule drugs to activate the immune system against cancer, today announced the appointment
of senior
pharmaceutical research and development
executive Michael F. Giordano, M.D., to its Board
of Directors.
It is alleged that what brought Valeant down was not its own activities but the actions
of Martin Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager who is now chief
executive officer
of Turing
Pharmaceuticals.
The board chose to collaborate with the activist, ultimately settling on the appointment
of Millennium
Pharmaceuticals» former president Deborah Dunshire as a non-
executive director; former
executive VP and general counsel
of Johnson Controls, Judith Reinsdorf, was co-opted shortly thereafter.
LAVAL, Quebec, March 21, 2016 / PRNewswire / — Valeant
Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE: VRX)(TSX: VRX) today announced that it has initiated a search for a new chief
executive officer, appointed William A. Ackman to its board
of directors, and provided an update on certain accounting and financial reporting matters.
Art has over 30 years
of operating experience as a
pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry
executive and venture capital investor in life science companies.
Martin Shkreli is the founder and chief
executive of Turing
Pharmaceuticals, which raised the price
of the drug Daraprim to $ 750 a tablet from $ 13.50.
Martin Shkreli, the chief
executive of Turing
Pharmaceuticals, explains the increase in drug prices in a CNBC interview.
In a 2014 deposition, the company's
executive director
of research and development said the
pharmaceutical giant had no «procedure related to the development
of what a drop size should be.»
Joaquin Duato, J&J's
executive vice president and worldwide chairman
of its
pharmaceuticals segment, said earlier this year that the company intends to continue growing its pharma business in several ways.
As Poppe put it: «Valeant and the chief
executive [Michael Pearson] had a good insight, which is that the U.S.
pharmaceutical industry was spending a lot
of money on [research and development] and not getting a great return on original research and development ideas.»
Cindy Whitehead, who was Sprout's chief
executive, left Valeant
Pharmaceuticals when distribution
of Addyi lagged.
Prior to his career in
executive search, Mr. Cummings was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Dallas, where he worked on a wide variety
of projects with clients in the aerospace & defense, consumer finance, telecommunications, oil & gas,
pharmaceuticals, healthcare and education industries.
Kenneth C. Frazier, chief
executive of Merck, the
pharmaceuticals company, on Monday resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council after the president failed to directly condemn the white nationalist protesters at the center
of violent protests in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list
of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number
of people involved in the business
of influencing government, including the head
of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate
executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman
of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»
A few months ago, BBC News suggested that «Martin Shkreli, the 32 - year - old chief
executive of Turing
Pharmaceuticals, may be the most hated man in America right now.»
Thorsten Kühn has been appointed the new Chief
Executive Officer
of the Schur Flexibles Group, a company based in Wiener Neudorf / Austria specialising in packaging solutions for the food, tobacco and
pharmaceutical industries.
Dr. Smith, who assumed the role
of Interim Chief
Executive Officer in August 2016, brings over 20 years developing and managing product and business opportunities in the agricultural, human and animal nutrition, and
pharmaceutical industries.
This good news has been welcomed by Steve Elliott, Chief
Executive of the Association who said «These numbers, in the teeth
of fierce global competition, reflect the hard work
of chemical and
pharmaceutical companies and their workforces» right across the UK».
NEW CITY, NY — Rockland County
Executive Ed Day announced today that the county is taking legal action against
pharmaceutical companies that made and sold prescription opioids that contributed to the epidemic
of abuse.
A federal judge revoked Martin Shkreli's bail on his fraud conviction, sending the former
pharmaceutical executive to jail after he offered $ 5,000 for a strand
of Clinton's hair.
Hundreds
of overdose victims in Erie County are dead because major
pharmaceutical companies misled doctors and patients into believing that highly addictive, prescription painkillers were safe, said Erie County
Executive Mark Poloncarz, who is suing the companies in state Supreme Court.
Hundreds
of overdose victims in Erie County are dead because major
pharmaceutical companies misled doctors and patients into believing that highly addictive, prescription painkillers were safe, Erie County
Executive Mark C. Poloncarz said.
Albany County
Executive Dan McCoy and Elizabeth Smith
of the South Carolina - based Motley Rice speak at a new conference about a lawsuit being against
pharmaceutical companies for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.
«The
pharmaceutical companies are in part responsible for this pandemic, and they need to help address what they helped to create,» said Stephanie Campbell, acting
executive director
of Friends
of Recovery New York.
All said they would encourage the prosecution and jailing
of bankers involved in the 2007 - 08 financial collapse, as well as
pharmaceutical executives who have contributed to the opioid epidemic.
The County
Executive also recently announced that the county is filing suit against a number
of doctors and
pharmaceutical companies, alleging they pushed opioids despite evidence they were dangerously addictive.
At Dominican College in Orangeburg on July 9, the Mid-Hudson EDC representatives met with Lt. Governor Robert Duffy, co-chairs Dennis Murray (President, Marist College) and Dr. Leonard Schleifer (President, Regeneron
Pharmaceuticals) and Aimee Vargas,
executive director
of Mid-Hudson Empire State Development.
Jann, a former town supervisor and
pharmaceutical representative, has announced his intention to become
executive director
of the authority, a post that pays $ 145,000 a year.
«The last thing we need is to put a
pharmaceutical executive in charge
of the Department
of Health and Human Services.»
At the helm now sits Richard Sykes, until recently chief
executive of Glaxo Wellcome and chief architect
of a merger that formed GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest
pharmaceutical company.
Today, at age 50, she's
executive vice president
of research and development at UCB, a major international
pharmaceutical company in Slough, U.K.
This goal
of this study, led by Geisbert and Ian MacLachlan,
executive vice president and chief technical officer
of Tekmira
Pharmaceuticals, was to determine whether it is possible to protect animals against a lethal MARV - Angola infection when treatment was started at a point when animals have detectable levels
of the virus in their system and show the first clinical signs
of disease.
Former
pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has congratulated a group
of Australian students who reproduced the active ingredient for a life - saving, anti-parasitic drug at the center
of a drug - price controversy involving his former company.