Jennifer L. Taubert — Company Group Chairman of Pharmaceuticals - The Americas at Johnson & Johnson

Ms. Jennifer L. Taubert has been Company Group Chairman of Pharmaceuticals, The Americas at Johnson & Johnson since April 2015 and served as its Group Chairman of North America Pharmaceuticals from January 2012 to March 2015. Ms. Taubert is responsible for the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies throughout North America and Latin America. She is a member of the Corporation's Management Committee and the Pharmaceuticals Group Operating Committee. She has been a leader in shaping Janssen's global strategy of transformational medical innovation, successfully commercializing critical new medicines that significantly improve the lives of patients living with cancer, immune-related diseases, heart disease and diabetes, infectious diseases including HIV and serious mental illness. She has built a portfolio that includes nine blockbuster therapies and under her leadership Janssen has become one of the largest and fastest-growing pharmaceutical companies and a major catalyst of Johnson & Johnson's growth. Ms. Taubert is also recognized as a champion of diversity and inclusion, which she sees as critical to insight, innovation and business success. In 2005, Ms. Taubert joined Johnson & Johnson to lead global commercial strategy for Internal Medicine and Early Development for the Pharmaceuticals Group. Later, as President, Internal Medicine, she built a powerhouse new franchise in the cardiovascular and metabolism space, where Janssen is now a leader in both anticoagulation and diabetes. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Ms. Taubert spent 18 years in positions of increasing scope and responsibility at Merck and Allergan. Fortune magazine named Ms. Taubert to its 2016 'Most Powerful Women' list. In addition to her leadership at Johnson & Johnson, she serves on the Executive Committee of the Healthcare Leadership Council, a coalition of executives from all disciplines within healthcare. She is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine Leadership Consortium for Value and Science-Driven Healthcare and at the global level, Ms. Taubert represents Johnson & Johnson on the Executive Committee of the International Section of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Ms. Taubert received a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master's of Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles.