Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) |
Position |
| Howard Solomon |
Chief Executive Officer |
| Lawrence S. Olanoff |
President & Chief Operating Officer |
| Elaine Hochberg |
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Chief Commercial Officer |
| Francis I. Perier, JR |
Senior Vice President, Finance & Chief Financial Officer |
| Raymond Stafford |
Executive Vice President, Global Marketing |
| Bernard J. McGovern |
Vice President, Human Resources |
| David F. Solomon |
Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Planning |
| Herschel S. Weinstein |
Vice President & General Counsel |
| Kevin Walsh |
Vice President, Information Systems & Manufacturing Operations |
| Richard S. Overton |
Vice President, Operations & Facilities |
| Rita Weinberger |
Vice President & Controller |
| William J. Meury |
Vice President, Marketing |
| William J. Candee, III |
Corporate Secretary |
Board of Directors
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Solomon has served as our Chief Executive Officer since 1977.
President and Chief Operating Officer since October 2006. President and Chief
Executive Officer at Celsion Corporation from July 2005 to October 2006. For
the ten years prior to July 2005, Dr. Olanoff served as Executive Vice President
– Chief Science Officer at Forest.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Forest Laboratories, Inc. |
President & Chief Operating Officer |
Current |
| Forest Laboratories, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Celsion Corporation |
Chief Executive Officer |
Former |
| Forest Laboratories, Inc. |
Executive Vice President, Scientific Affairs |
Former |
| Celsion Corporation |
Executive Vice President |
Former |
| Case Western Reserve University |
PhD (Biomedical Engineering) Degrees |
Former |
Elaine Hochberg is our Senior Vice President – Marketing since December 1999 and Chief Commercial Officer since December 2007. Ms. Hochberg joined us in June 1997 as Vice President – Marketing of our wholly-owned subsidiary Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In February 1998, she was promoted to Vice President – Marketing. Prior to joining us in 1997, Ms. Hochberg was Assistant Vice President – Marketing at Wyeth-Lederle Laboratories.
Francis I. Perier, Jr. is our Senior Vice President – Finance and Chief Financial Officer since September 2004. From March 2004 until joining us in September 2004, Mr. Perier was Vice President – Finance – Operations Planning – Americas Medicines at Bristol-Myers Squibb. For eight years prior to March 2004, Mr. Perier served in senior financial positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb including four years as Vice President – Finance, Planning, Business Development and Information Technology at its ConvaTec Division. Prior to that, Mr. Perier had been a partner at Deloitte & Touche, LLP.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Forest Laboratories, Inc. |
Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Planning |
Current |
| Project Rebirth, Inc |
Producer |
Current |
| Lincoln Center Theater |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Project Rebirth, Inc |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| The Municipal Art Society |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
|
Former |
| Paramount Pictures Corporation |
Director |
Former |
| Yale Law School |
|
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Forest Laboratories, Inc. |
Vice President, Information Systems & Manufacturing Operations |
Current |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Forest Laboratories, Inc. |
Vice President, Operations & Facilities |
Current |
| Inwood Laboratories, Inc. |
Vice President, Operations & Facilities |
Former |
Dan L. Goldwasser is an attorney in the New York office of Vedder Price, where he is a member of the firm's Corporate and Securities Practice. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School and has counseled dozens of companies (both private and public) in mergers, acquisitions, public offerings, private placements and tender offers. He is also an authority on restricted securities, representing both institutional and private investors in sales of restricted securities. Mr. Goldwasser is the author of A Guide to Rule 144 (PLI 1978), a treatise on restricted stock sales, as well as the chapter titled "The Underwritten Offering" in the treatise Securities Law Techniques published by Matthew Bender. More recently, he wrote the chapter on audit committees in Nonprofit Governance and Management (ABA 2002). He has also written numerous position papers and comment letters for the American Bar Association's Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, on which he has served for over 35 years. Mr. Goldwasser has chaired and appeared in numerous symposia for the ABA, the Practising Law Institute and other bar associations on corporate and securities law topics, including programs on securities law opinions, blue sky laws, sales and resales of restricted securities, and directors and officers liability. He has also chaired an ABA satellite video program on business valuations. Mr. Goldwasser currently is a member of the American Bar Association's Committees on Federal Regulation of Securities and Law and Accounting, and he previously served on the Securities Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Committee on Corporation Law of the New York State Bar Association. He also serves on the board of directors of a public company and on its audit and compensation committees. In 2005, he was appointed as one of the five public members of the Auditing Standards Board, the senior technical committee of the AICPA with authority to publish statements of standards for the conduct of financial statement audits. The ASB statements are the authoritative standards for all non-public company audits.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz |
Attorney |
Current |
| Corporate Inc |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Forest Laboratories, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Harvard University |
|
Former |
President, The George Cohan Company, Inc., consultants, since June 1989.
Former President and Chief Operating Officer of Forest (December 1998 to
September 2006). For eighteen years prior thereto, Mr. Goodman served as
Vice President – Finance and Chief Financial Officer and in addition served as
Executive Vice President – Operations since February 1998.
Clinical Professor and member of the Clinical Attending Staff Internal Medicine,
Mount Sinai Medical School. Prior thereto Dr. Salans was Vice President –
Research at Sandoz Pharmaceutical Corporation.
Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Basgoz previously served as Clinical
Director, Infectious Diseases Division of MGH and serves as Associate Professor
of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Executive News
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Nycomed, Forest Laboratories, Inc. (FRX) Lung Drug Shows Add-on Potential
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Nycomed/Forest - Ph III Data Published in The Lancet Showing that Roflumilast (Daxas), a New Oral Approach to COPD, Improves Lung Function and Reduces Exacerbations
Pharma Live - 8/28/09 - View Story
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Four Studies Published in The Lancet Show roflumilast (Daxas(R)), a New Oral Approach...
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Four Studies Published in The Lancet Show Roflumilast (Daxas(R)), a New Oral Approach to COPD,...
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Four Studies Published in The Lancet Show roflumilast (Daxas(R)), a New Oral Approach to COPD, Improves Lung Function and Reduces Exacerbations
PR Newswire - 8/27/09 - View Story
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Four Studies Published in The Lancet Show Roflumilast (Daxas), a New Oral Approach to COPD, Improves Lung Function and Reduces Exacerbations
Business Wire - 8/27/09 - View Story
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Glenmark takes 17% knock, biggest in 2 months
Economictimes - 8/19/09 - View Story
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Glenmark takes 17% knock
Economictimes - 8/19/09 - View Story
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2nd UPDATE: Glenmark, Forest Say Their Drug Failed In Trials
Morningstar.com - 8/19/09 - View Story
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UPDATE: Glenmark, Forest Say Oglemilast Failed In Key Study
Morningstar.com - 8/19/09 - View Story
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Glenmark, Forest Say Drug Trial Fails
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition - 8/19/09 - View Story
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AstraZeneca and Forest Laboratories to Co-Develop and Commercialise a Late Stage Next Generation Anti-Infective
WebWire - 8/13/09 - View Story
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AstraZeneca and Forest Laboratories to Co-Develop and Commercialize a Late Stage Next Generation Anti-Infective
PharmaceuticalProcessing - 8/13/09 - View Story
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AstraZeneca, Forest Lab To Co-develop, Commercialize Anti-infective Ceftaroline Outside US, Canada & Japan - Update
RTTNews.com - 8/12/09 - View Story
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Forest Laboratories and AstraZeneca to Co-Develop and Commercialize a Late Stage Next...
Forbes.com - 8/12/09 - View Story
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Forest Laboratories, Inc. (FRX) (JOBS) to Sell Nycomed's Lung Drug Daxas in U.S.; Forest to Pay $100 Million Upfront, Up to $500 Million More Later
BioSpace - 8/11/09 - View Story
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Forest Laboratories, Inc. (FRX) to Sell Nycomed's Lung Drug Daxas in U.S.; Forest to Pay $100 Million Upfront, Up to $500 Million More Later
BioSpace - 8/10/09 - View Story
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Forest Labs pays $100M upfront in Daxas pact
FierceBiotech - 8/10/09 - View Story
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BREAKING NEWS: Forest Labs pays $100M upfront in Daxas pact
FierceBiotech - 8/10/09 - View Story
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Nycomed and Forest Laboratories to Collaborate on US Commercialisation of Daxas(R) in COPD
PR Newswire via Yahoo! - 8/10/09 - View Story