Is As­traZeneca look­ing for the ide­al can­di­date to re­place Pas­cal So­ri­ot?

You can ex­pect to hear plen­ty of new ru­mors about Pas­cal So­ri­ot’s im­pend­ing de­par­ture from As­traZeneca’s helm — whether they’re true or not.

A year af­ter So­ri­ot rather slow­ly re­fut­ed a host of press re­ports that he was con­sid­er­ing a jump to the helm at Te­va, The Sun­day Times re­port­ed over the week­end that As­traZeneca has be­gun suc­ces­sion plan­ning fol­low­ing share­hold­er pres­sure as the phar­ma gi­ant works to achieve a turn­around. They’ll al­so re­port­ed­ly be look­ing for some­one to suc­ceed chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer Marc Dunoy­er as well.

Unlock this article instantly by becoming a free subscriber.

You’ll get access to free articles each month, plus you can customize what newsletters get delivered to your inbox each week, including breaking news.

SIGN UP LOG IN BECOME A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER