In Brief: Pharmacia & Upjohn
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Pharmacia & Upjohn: Fred Hassen, 51, to president and CEO. Hassen succeeds Jan Ekberg, who assumed the role of interim president and CEO in January following the resignation of John Zabriskie. Ekberg will return to his former position as P&U chair. Since November 1995, Hassen has held the post of American Home Products exec-VP, in charge of worldwide nutritional, pharmaceutical and medical device businesses and R&D. He joined AHP in 1989 as head of the company's Wyeth-Ayerst division. Prior to that, Hassen spent 17 years at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp., most notably as CEO of U.S. pharmaceuticals and R&D...