William Weldon is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson & Johnson and is the sixth Chairman in Johnson & Johnson's over one-hundred year history.
Weldon joined J&J as a sales representative for the McNeil Pharameutical division in 1971 and eventually became the head of J&J's Ethicon Endo-Surgery business in 1992. He became the head of J&J's pharmaceutical operations in 1998 and then became J&J's CEO in 2002. As CEO, Weldon engineered some of the largest acquisitions in J&J's history including the purchase of ALZA and Pfizer's consumer-health product line.
William Weldon received a BA in Biology from Quinnipiac University.
It's interesting. We had a fellow who picked up a major organization years ago who called up and said he wanted to come and sit down and talk to us, and he asked the same question because he inherited a business that maybe didn't have the same value system - not that they were bad, just not the sam...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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