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Executive vice president, commercial operations, and chief operating officer, Genentech

Nationality: American.

Born: 1958, in New Mexico.

Education: University of Chicago, AB, 1980.

Family: Daughter of a restaurant owner and a social worker; married; children: two.

Career: Merck 1980–1996, vice president of Northeast Region Business Group, 1993–1996; Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1996–2000, vice president for strategy and economics, vice president of Worldwide Medicines Group, vice president for sales, president of U.S. Cardiovascular/Metabolics Group; Genentech,...