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.
This year we lost a $4 billion dollar pharmaceutical product with margins that were in plus 90% and we continued to move along, because it affected a businesses but the other businesses continued to drive forward. And I think it is, as I said, the greatest development of people that you can possibl...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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