Pamela J. Craig and Dr. Paul B. Rothman Elected to Merck Board of Directors
July 28, 2015 3:15 pm ET
Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada,
today announced that Pamela J. Craig, retired chief financial officer of
Accenture, and Dr. Paul B. Rothman, dean of the medical faculty, vice
president for medicine of The Johns Hopkins University and chief
executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, will join the company’s
board of directors, effective Sept. 1, 2015.
The addition expands the Merck board to 14 members. Ms. Craig will serve
as a member of the company’s audit committee, and Dr. Rothman will serve
as a member of the company’s research committee. They will both stand
for election by the company’s shareholders in May 2016.
“We are pleased to welcome Pamela Craig and Dr. Paul Rothman to the
Merck board. Each brings a tremendous wealth of experience and expertise
in their respective fields,” said Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and chief
executive officer, Merck. “We are confident that their contributions and
insights will further strengthen the board.”
Ms. Craig served as the chief financial officer of Accenture, a global
management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, from
2006 until her retirement in 2013. During her 34 years at Accenture, she
held a variety of consulting, line management, operational and finance
leadership roles. Ms. Craig is currently a senior advisor for Teneo, a
global advisory firm.
Ms. Craig is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College and earned an
MBA from New York University. She serves as a member of the board of
directors of Akamai Technologies, a leading worldwide provider of
internet optimization services, where she also serves as audit committee
chair and as a member of the compensation committee. She also serves as
a board member and M&A committee member of VMware, Inc., a global
technology leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure.
Additionally, Ms. Craig serves on the board of directors and audit
committee of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Dr. Rothman oversees the Johns Hopkins Health System and school of
medicine. A rheumatologist and molecular immunologist, he joined Johns
Hopkins in July 2012 after having served as dean of the Carver College
of Medicine at the University of Iowa and leader of its clinical
practice plan since 2008. He previously served as head of internal
medicine at the University of Iowa from 2004 until 2008. Prior to that,
he was vice chairman for research and founding director of the Division
of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he joined the faculty in 1986.
Dr. Rothman is a 1980 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and earned his medical degree from Yale
University in 1984. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical
Investigation and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He
was elected to the council of Association of American Physicians as a
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and
as a member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association.
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