Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna, has had quite an interesting career. Over the years, his work has taken him from Europe, to Harvard, to the forefront of the international discussion on the best way to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. In the beginning of 2020, his company was a relatively unknown Boston-based biotech with no approved drugs to its name…
Born and raised in New Jersey, Tommy Ibrahim has followed a unique path to the C-suite. In England, Ibrahim received his Doctor of Medicine degree and his Bachelor of Medical Science degree. He then returned to the U.S. to complete his internal medicine residency at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, an academic affiliate of Johns Hopkins…
Dan Burton, the Chief Executive Officer of Health Catalyst, has some very deep roots with his company. He first got involved with the health care data and analytics provider when it was a mere three-person startup. This was in January 2011 and Burton’s initial roles were as an investor and advisor…
David Ricks is the Chief Executive Officer of Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical giant that has notched a myriad of achievements in its belt during its 140+ years of existence, including being the first to mass produce the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Since taking the reins of the historic drugmaker in 2017, Ricks has steered Eli Lilly through a big restructuring///
A former nurse who transitioned into a corporate leader, Linda Blair has dedicated her entire professional career to healthcare and improving the lives of other people. Not only is she widely considered one of Canada’s most successful women leaders, she also has more than 25 years of experience working particularly in the healthcare sector with IT integration and large-scale transformational projects…
Gary S. Guthart, Chief Executive Officer of the world’s most successful medical robotics company, is proof that working for NASA as a teenager will often lead to good things. Guthart was in high school when his math teacher signed him up for an internship that turned out to be located on a nearby NASA base and U.S. Naval base…
Michael Mahoney, the man making all the big decisions for Boston Scientific these days, got his start in a rather odd place. After completing his university education, his first job was in a sales role for General Electric Medical, where he was tasked with selling nuclear medicine cardiology systems to every little hospital in the Carolinas…
For Johnson & Johnson’s new CEO, Joaquin Duato, healthcare is woven into his genes. Born and raised in Spain, Duato comes from a long line of family members who dedicated their lives to helping others with medical science. His mother was a nurse, his grandmother a pharmacist, and his grandfather a pediatrician…
Stryker, the world’s largest orthopedic device company, has seen some incredible growth since Kevin Lobo took the helm ten years ago. Under Lobo’s leadership, the Kalamazoo, Michigan-based medtech giant has made numerous headline-grabbing purchases, including the recent $4.7 billion acquisition of Wright Medical…
Considering that internal promotions to the role of CFO at Fortune 500 companies are not uncommon, it was not hard to fathom why Caroline Litchfield was chosen to take over the most senior financial position in her company last year. Litchfield, who received her Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Leicester, has been with healthcare giant Merck her entire professional career…
