J&J Vice Chairman Christine Poon

Christine Poon (photo), vice chairman of Johnson & Johnson and worldwide chair of its pharmaceuticals division. plans to retire on March 1, 2009. Poon, 56, has 20 years in pharma, 15 of them at Bristol-Myers Squibb before she joined J&J. She is top-ranked woman in the drug business, and, according to Forbes, one of the most respected. The magazine ranked her as the 26th most powerful woman in business in 2006.

Poon will be replaced by Sheri McCoy (photo), another J&J veteran.

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