William C. Weldon is Chairman of the Board of Johnson & Johnson. He assumed his current responsibilities in April, 2002. Previously Bill served as Worldwide Chairman, Pharmaceuticals Group, and a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. He was elected to the Board in February 2001.

Bill joined Johnson & Johnson in 1971 in the sales and marketing department of its McNeil Pharmaceutical subsidiary. In 1982 he was named manager, ICOM Regional Development Center in Southeast Asia. Bill was appointed executive vice president and managing director of Korea McNeil, Ltd., in 1984 and managing director of Ortho-Cilag Pharmaceutical, Ltd., in the U.K. in 1986. In 1989, he was named vice president of sales and marketing at Janssen Pharmaceutica in the U.S., and in 1992 he was appointed president of Ethicon Endo-Surgery.

In 1995, Bill was named a company group chairman of Johnson & Johnson and Worldwide Franchise Chairman of Ethicon Endo-Surgery, the Johnson & Johnson affiliate that develops new procedures for minimally-invasive surgery and designs related products. In 1998, Bill was promoted to the Executive Committee and named Worldwide Chairman, Pharmaceuticals Group.

Among his outside activities, Bill is a member of the Board of Directors of JPMorgan Chase & Co and the US – China Business Council. He is also the immediate past Chairman of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a member of The Business Council, and a member of the Healthcare Leadership Council.

Bill also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Quinnipiac University. He previously served as Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Bill was born in Brooklyn, NY, and is a graduate of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He and his wife have two children.

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