Global Giants

Thomas Polen  Chairman and CEO Becton, Dickinson & Co. In 2020, Polen became leader just as the pandemic struck. BD has responded brilliantly, overcoming supply-chain issues to be a leader in supplying COVID test and syringes —...

Victor Bulto  President, Innovative Medicines U.S. Novartis Bulto, the former president of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, is now helping company pursue a bold strategy to reimagine medicine and deliver on its responsibility to unlock the potential for helping patients...

Bill Hanlon  President, CDCS, clinical therapeutic & regulatory sciences, and chief scientific officer Labcorp Drug Development Hanlon has responsibility for all the scientific, therapeutic, market access & regulatory expertise, patient recruitment, medical device & diagnostics development, cell...

John Oyler  Co-founder, chairman and CEO BeiGene BeiGene — a global biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing innovative cancer medicines — is building a new campus for research & development and manufacturing on a 42-acre site...

Kevin Ali CEO Organon Heads Jersey City-based Organon, a spinoff from Merck, which believes the journey to improve women’s health is critical to achieving a healthier world, and it works tirelessly toward its goal of finding solutions...

Doug Langa  Head of North America operations Novo Nordisk The company, which makes its U.S. headquarters in Plainsboro, recently got a huge branding moment for Wegovy: Elon Musk tweeted that it is helping him lose weight. Ken...

Sherine Aly  Founder and CEO BioCentric Runs a privately held, full-service global medical and scientific health care communications and training company that develops programs for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device industries; medical and health care associations; and...

Ken Keller  CEO Daiichi Sankyo U.S. Veteran health care exec, who also heads Daiichi Sankyo’s global oncology business, has successfully launched numerous biologic products in therapeutic areas ranging from oncology to bone health to nephrology to inflammatory...

Patrick Lockwood-Taylor  President, U.S. Bayer In addition to being responsible for all U.S. activities of the worldwide Bayer group, he also serves a dual role as regional president of consumer health North America. Doug LangaJohn Oyler  

Ivan Cheung  Chairman and CEO Eisai Company, which moved its U.S. headquarters to the ON3 campus in Nutley, is hopeful (and confident) that the breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug it produced with Biogen will win full approval from drug...