Pfizer elects new lead director of board
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Pfizer Inc.  said on Friday  that Constance Horner, a member of the drug maker's board since  1993, has been elected lead director effective February 23.
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Intel&#39;s board of directors has elected current president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini as its next chief executive, succeeding Craig Barrett, who was named new chairman of the board.
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Executives from Dial, Dow Chemical, and Shell Chemical LP are the newest  members of The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) Board of Directors.
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The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding said its chief executive would step down next March as the company separates that job from the chairmanâs position. Franz B. Humer, who has been chief since 1998, will remain chairman of the board. Next July, he also will become chairman of the beverage company Diageo. He will be succeeded by Severin Schwan, 40, who had been the head of Rocheâs diagnostics unit since January. The company also posted a 24 percent increase in first-half net profit, to 4.92 billion Swiss francs ($4.1 billion) from 3.97 billion francs in the period a year earlier. Roche benefited from its flu treatment Tamiflu as governments stockpile the drug in case of an influenza pandemic.
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Medical Technology and Innovations, Inc. (OTCBB:MTIV) announced today  that Theodore F. di Stefano has been appointed to the Company's  Board of Directors and as Chairman of its Audit Committee.
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By Elizabeth Moore, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 16--Presiding over his first board meeting as downstate chairman of the Empire State Development Corp. yesterday, Patrick Foye did something unprecedented in recent memory.
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Visa said on Monday it had named Joseph Saunders, previously president of card service at Washington Mutual Inc. , as executive chairman to help lead the company as it goes public.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- SPX Corp. said it has named a new chairman and a chief executive officer to replace the current chairman, president and chief executive, who has resigned after nine years in those positions.
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NEW YORK -- Robert B. Willumstad, who left Citigroup Inc. after being passed over for the top management job, has been selected as the new chairman of the board of American International Group Inc., one of the world's largest insurance companies.
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Deutsche Post named logistics chief Frank Appel as its new chairman on Monday following the departure of Klaus Zumwinkel who is under investigation in Germany's biggest ever tax evasion probe.
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NEW YORK -- Drug-maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. ousted Peter R. Dolan as chief executive on Tuesday over a soured patent agreement for its blockbuster drug Plavix, and named board member James M. Cornelius as interim CEO.
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Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, on Tuesday said it elected Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, to be a director.
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Pfizer Inc.  on Monday boosted its quarterly dividend 21 percent after the surprise failure of its most important experimental drug that caused a sell-off in its shares, and gave its chief executive additional duties as chairman.
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ImClone Systems Inc. IMCL.O   shareholders on Wednesday elected Carl Icahn and two of his   associates to its board in the hope the billionaire investor   can help stabilize the company after a series of blows that   could hurt sales and limit its strategic options.
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Shareholders of ImClone Systems Inc.   IMCL.O on Wednesday elected Carl Icahn and two of his   associates to the board on hopes the billionaire investor can   help stabilize the company after a series of blows that could   hurt sales and limit its strategic options.
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Belgian wireless data card maker  Option  said on Wednesday it had named John  Patrick Ziegler as its new chief financial officer.
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In a management shake-up at Marlborough drug maker Sepracor Inc. , the company said in a regulatory filing it has hired Adrian Adams as president and chief operating officer and plans to promote him to chief executive within six months. Current president William James O'Shea will get a $1 million severance package and serve as vice chairman until ...