Mon­cef Slaoui piv­ots from Mod­er­na's board to the helm of Project Warp Speed. His task: Overnight suc­cess

Mon­cef Slaoui stepped off Mod­er­na’s board of di­rec­tors on Fri­day and piv­ot­ed straight in­to the high pro­file role head­ing the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s Project Warp Speed, where he’ll be in charge of ac­cel­er­at­ing Mod­er­na’s — and oth­ers — vac­cines to a rapid re­lease for a pan­dem­ic weary world.

The news be­came of­fi­cial mid-day Fri­day af­ter nu­mer­ous re­ports ear­li­er that he had been picked off the short list of can­di­dates.

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