New Pfiz­er CEO Al­bert Bourla shakes up the top team that will now lead the phar­ma gi­ant -- and there's a chief dig­i­tal of­fi­cer com­ing on board

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 that will help de­ter­mine just how suc­cess­ful Bourla turns out in his new job.

Pfiz­er is start­ing by ex­pand­ing the top group of ex­ecs, hir­ing Lidia Fon­se­ca from Quest Di­ag­nos­tics to lead up the com­pa­ny’s dig­i­tal ef­forts across re­search, dis­cov­ery and busi­ness process­es — fol­low­ing a fo­cus that No­var­tis and oth­ers have put a pre­mi­um on over the past year. Fon­se­ca’s new ti­tle is chief dig­i­tal of­fi­cer, or CDO.

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