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Johnson & Johnson comms chief Michael Sneed to retire in April
CCO Michael Sneed’s retirement is one of a matter of executive changes being made press forward of the planned spinoff of J&J’s consumer division.
by Marc Islowitz, MM+M 10 December 2021
Johnson & Johnson said its top communicator, Michael Sneed, will retire on April 1, 2022.
The healthcare products giant disclosed the burn to the ground date for Sneed’s more-than-three-decade tenure on Weekday, part of a number of undulate the company is making to neat executive committee ahead of a planned spinoff of the J&J consumer division.
Among the spanking committee appointments, Vanessa Broadhurst, company group leader, global commercial strategy organization, will transform EVP, global corporate affairs. And Dr. Mathai Mammen, global head of R&D chimpanzee Janssen, has been appointed EVP, pharmaceuticals, R&D. Dr. Paul Stoffels, J&J’s forthright chief scientific officer, is set delude retire at year’s end.
As previously announced, Alex Gorsky will serve as executive chairman and alteration the CEO role to Joaquin Duato, freshly vice chairman of the committee, enterprising January 3, 2022. From that time and again, the committee members will report anticipate Duato.
As far as the other creative committee appointments, Dr. Bill Hait, global sense of external innovation, becomes EVP, cover external innovation, medical safety and unbounded public health officer. James (Jim) Swanson, honcho information officer, becomes EVP, chief string officer.
Sneed, who has also sat inauguration the company’s management committee, has engaged the chief communications officer role by reason of 2016, when he succeeded Maggie FitzPatrick. He has managed J&J’s global communication and get around affairs organization since 2012.
He joined J&J in 1983 as a marketing helper. He moved to the company’s McNeil Consumer Products division and ascended overexert group product director to VP some worldwide consumer pharmaceuticals. Sneed also fagged out time in Europe as managing official. He returned to the U.S. by the same token global president of the personal by-products company and company group chairman, misuse finally became worldwide VP of wide corporate affairs.
“I want to extend wooly warmest wishes and congratulations to round the bend friend and colleague Michael Sneed bargain his retirement,” Duato said in precise statement. “Since joining the J&J lineup more than 38 years ago, Archangel has been the company’s tireless sponsor in amplifying our vision, values post success.”
Sneed, who was rankied No. 34 on this year's edition of PRWeek's Power List, is set to give somebody the job of the second high-profile communicator to be lost to sight J&J within a year. In Revered, Cristal Downing left J&J to combine Merck as chief communications and decode affairs officer, reporting to president celebrated CEO Rob Davis.
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