Hun­ker­ing down on deals and racial di­ver­si­ty pledge amid pan­dem­ic, Gio­van­ni Caforio took home $20M last year at Bris­tol My­ers Squibb

Bris­tol My­ers Squibb may have tak­en a back seat in the glob­al R&D fight against Covid-19, but be­hind the scenes, the pan­dem­ic still loomed large for CEO Gio­van­ni Caforio.

En­sur­ing the safe­ty and well-be­ing of em­ploy­ees while safe­guard­ing the de­liv­ery of med­i­cines was a key ob­jec­tive as the board weighed Caforio’s pay pack­age, the com­pa­ny wrote in a fil­ing. The fifth-year CEO ul­ti­mate­ly took home $20.15 mil­lion — with close to $1.7 mil­lion in base salary and $13.5 mil­lion in stock awards.

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