There's another big executive departure coming in the world of Big Pharma: this time it's Christine Poon (photo [1]), vice chairman of Johnson & Johnson and worldwide chair of its pharmaceuticals division. Poon, 56, plans to retire on March 1, J&J announced today, saying that it will announce a succession plan "in a timely fashion."
With 20 years in pharma, 15 of them at Bristol-Myers Squibb before she joined J&J, Poon has been a heavyweight in the industry. She's the top-ranked woman in the drug business, and, according to Forbes, one of the most respected. The magazine ranked her as the 26th most powerful woman in business in 2006.
- see J&J's release [2]
- read the Forbes article [3]
- get more [4] from Pharmalot
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Links:
[1] http://www.fiercebiotech.com/pages/j-j-vice-chairman-christine-poon
[2] http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/christine-poon-plans-retirement-johnson-johnson-early-2009-0
[3] http://www.fiercepharma.com/fiercecms/create/Before joining J&J in 2000, she spent 15 years at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
[4] http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/09/johnson-johnsons-christine-poon-to-retire/
[5] http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/j-j-reorg-anoints-growth-czar/2007-11-15