NAME: William C. Weldon
AGE: 61
EDUCATION: Quinnipiac University, bachelor's degree.
PERSONAL: Married, two children, one grandson.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO since April 2002. Previously served as: worldwide head of J&J's pharmaceuticals division, since 1998; chairman of Ethicon Endo-Surgery, which makes products and procedures for minimally invasive surgery, since 1995, and president of that business, since 1992.
Weldon joined Johnson & Johnson in 1971 in pharmaceuticals sales. He moved up in sales management positions in Southeast Asia and London before heading up sales and marketing at Janssen Pharmaceutica, a unit that develops many of J&J's prescription drugs, starting in 1989.
Chairman of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, vice chair of The Business Council.
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