Fingerpaint – a full-service marketing agency with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, Arizona and New Jersey – has added Joseph Cymerman to its digital strategy team. Cymerman is based in the agency’s Saratoga Springs, N.Y., office.
AbelsonTaylor – one of the world’s premier health and wellness advertising agencies – promoted Lynnette Hunter to executive vice president, director of client services, and Jeanine Koch to executive vice president, director of project management.
Scout Health – a leading healthcare marketing firm that specializes in rare diseases, orphan drugs and specialty pharmaceuticals – rehired veteran marketing executive Lauren Amodeo to the newly created position of vice president, management supervisor.
After multiple failures to develop therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease, Biogen’s Michael D. Ehlers resigned from his role as head of research and development.
Ian Read, a stalwart figure at Pfizer for four decades, will step down from his role as executive chairman of the board of directors at the end of 2019.
Juul Labs said the company would suspend all broadcast, print and digital product advertising in the United States and replaced CEO Kevin Burns.
Microsoft announced that GlaxoSmithKline CEO Emma Walmsley was nominated to the company’s board of directors.
As Akcea Therapeutics moves forward with a second attempt to gain regulatory approval for Waylivra, the company will do so without a number of C-suite executives after announcing the departure of the CEO and other senior leaders as new board members take over.
Fingerpaint added Brittany Foley to the full-service marketing agency’s account service team. Foley will be based in the agency’s Saratoga Springs, N.Y., office.
Cambridge BioMarketing has appointed Ben Beckley as president.
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