Keyword: Chris Viehbacher

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Olivier Brandicourt to leave Bayer and become CEO of Sanofi

19.02.2015 - As had been widely speculated, Olivier Brandicourt, currently CEO of Bayer HealthCare, will leave the company at the end of March and become new CEO of French pharmaceutical...

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Bayer’s Brandicourt Could Be New Sanofi CEO

19.02.2015 - As the search narrows for a successor to Chris Viehbacher, who was dismissed last year as CEO of French drugmaker Sanofi, French newspaper Le Figaro has identified Bayer HealthCare...

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Fired Sanofi CEO to Receive $4.4 Million Severance Pay

26.01.2015 - French drugmaker Sanofi will pay its former chief executive Chris Viehbacher, fired by the company in October 2014, a severance package worth €4.4 million in total, including fixed...

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Sanofi and Evotec R&D Pact to Include Toulouse Transfer

04.12.2014 - An R&D collaboration between France-based drugmaker Sanofi and German drug delivery specialist Evotec, announced on Dec. 2, foresees the transfer of the French company's site at...

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Sanofi Removes Viehbacher as CEO

29.10.2014 - Sanofi's Board of Directors held a meeting today (Wednesday, October 29) at 8am and decided unanimously to remove Christopher A. Viehbacher as Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi. As...

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Drug Industry CEOs Plotting More Carve-outs

07.05.2013 - A new generation of drug industry chief executives is stepping up plans to restructure their businesses by divesting slower-growing and maturing operations, opening up new...

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Drugmakers Eye Africa's Middle Classes as Next Growth Market

12.02.2013 - For pharmaceutical companies, Africa is changing. Not only is the continent's economic growth grabbing attention in boardrooms but the shifting nature of its disease burden is...

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Sanofi Lets Genzyme's Biotech Culture Call the Shots

16.11.2012 - When Sanofi boss Chris Viehbacher first met staff at Genzyme, the U.S. biotech he had just acquired after a long takeover battle, he told them he did not want "planeloads of people...