No­var­tis CEO Narasimhan raids Glax­o­SmithK­line of­fices for his new San­doz chief

No­var­tis’ Vas Narasimhan has his new San­doz chief.

The phar­ma gi­ant re­port­ed with its Q1 num­bers that they’ve raid­ed Glax­o­SmithK­line’s se­nior ex­ec­u­tive crew for a new CEO to run the com­pa­ny. And they’re bring­ing back some­one who knows the op­er­a­tion well.

Richard Saynor is mak­ing the leap from his last post as SVP clas­sic & es­tab­lished prod­ucts, com­mer­cial & dig­i­tal plat­forms at a time spec­u­la­tion about the fu­ture of San­doz has been ram­pant. But he may have some ideas on what can be done bet­ter. Ac­cord­ing to his LinkedIn page, he’s been at GSK for close to 9 years — af­ter jump­ing over from San­doz.

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