Per­ri­go taps ex-to­bac­co ex­ec as new CEO; Dana Far­ber T cell in­ves­ti­ga­tor Nick Hain­ing joins Mer­ck

→ Less than a year af­ter tak­ing over Per­ri­go $PR­GO from long­time CEO John Hen­drick­son, Uwe Röhrhoff has picked a suc­ces­sor to ex­e­cute the new vi­sion he cast for the OTC and gener­ic drug com­pa­ny. A for­mer to­bac­co ex­ec­u­tive, Mur­ray Kessler is tasked with lead­ing Per­ri­go’s con­sumer-fo­cused strat­e­gy as it spins out its pre­scrip­tion drug busi­ness.

→ We found out last week that Pfiz­er had tapped Ian Read’s care­ful­ly groomed suc­ces­sor Al­bert Bourla for the top C-suite post at the phar­ma gi­ant. And right on the heels of that an­nounce­ment, Pfiz­er re­vealed that they have al­so de­cid­ed to shake up the top team.

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