Thousand Oaks, Ca., USA - December 14, 2012, Thousand Oaks, Ca., USA - Amgen, a biopharmaceutical company, announced that Robert A. Bradway has been appointed chairman of the board and Vance D. Coffman has been appointed lead independent director, both effective January 1, 2013.
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Mr. Bradway has served as Amgen's Chief Executive Officer since May 2012 and was appointed to the Amgen Board of Directors in October 2011.
He joined the company in 2006 as Vice President, Operations Strategy, and served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2010.
Prior to joining Amgen, Mr. Bradway was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.
Mr. Bradway holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Amherst College and a Masters in Business Administration degree from Harvard University.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Norfolk Southern Corporation.
Mr. Coffman has served as a director of the Company since October 2007. He served in various executive capacities at Lockheed Martin Corporation, a high technology aerospace and defense company.
He served as Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 1997, as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 until 2004, and as Chairman of the Board until 2005.
Mr. Coffman is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Astronautical Society. He is also a director of 3M Company and Deere & Company.
The company also announced that Robert A. Eckert has been appointed to the board and he will serve on the Audit and Corporate Responsibility and Compliance Committees.
Mr. Eckert currently serves as non-executive Chairman at Mattel where he served as Chief Executive Officer from 2000 through 2011.
Prior to this role, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Foods, Inc. from 1997 to 2000.
Before that, he served as Group Vice President and President of Kraft's Oscar Mayer foods division.
Mr. Eckert currently serves on the Boards of Directors of McDonald's Corporation and Levi Strauss & Co.
He is on the Dean's Advisory Board of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and serves on the Eller College of Management National Board of Advisors at the University of Arizona. ■