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.
J&J was founded over 100 years ago. It was really founded by a couple of brothers who were looking to advance basically theories about prevention of diseases, or I should say surgical supplies in that period of time, and it has grown obviously to be one of the largest corporations in the world. If...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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