Joseph Jimenez

Joseph Jimenez
Nationality American
Alma mater Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley[1]
Occupation Former CEO of Novartis

Joseph Jimenez is the former CEO of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis.[2]

Education

Jimenez earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1982, and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business in 1984.[3]

Career

Early career

Jimenez began his career at Clorox before joining ConAgra Foods.[4] Prior to joining Novartis, he was head of H. J. Heinz Company's North American business from 2002 to 2006. He was also a non-executive director of AstraZeneca from 2002 to 2007, as well as an advisor for the Blackstone Group.[1]

Novartis

Jimenez joined Novartis in 2007 as Division Head of Novartis Pharmaceutical and was named CEO in 2010[5] by his predecessor and Chairman Daniel Vasella.[6]

During his time at Novartis, Jimenez increasingly applied standard business metrics to pharma cash flow, purchasing and competitive bidding, confident that his experience in consumer goods would help to realize improvements in Novartis' operations. His cost-cutting moves, focused mostly on marketing and administration, came steadily, with more than a billion cut in 2010, and even more than that in 2011.[7]

Jimenez joined Board of Directors at General Motors on June 9, 2015[8]

Jimenez resigned and left Novartis in February 2018 and will be succeeded by Vasant Narasimhan.[9]


References

  1. 1 2 http://www.novartisfoundation.org/platform/content/element/4381/bio_jimenez_e_final.pdf
  2. ↑ "Fix the Problem, and Not Just the Symptoms". New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Joseph Jimenez MBA". Businessweek. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Joseph Jimenez - Forbes". People.forbes.com. 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
  5. ↑ "Joseph Jimenez - The 25 most influential people in biopharma today". Fierce Biotech. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  6. ↑ Greil, Anita (2010-01-26). "Vasella's Impeccable Timing - The Source - WSJ". Blogs.wsj.com. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
  7. ↑ http://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/25-most-influential-people-biopharma-today/joseph-jimenez-25-most-influential-people
  8. ↑ url=http://www.gm.com/company/aboutGM/board_of_directors0/joseph_jimenez.html
  9. ↑ "Novartis CEO Jimenez to Quit, Giving Reins to Harvard Doctor". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg Technology. 4 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
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