COMPANY

Pharmaceutical and chemical company, formed by a merger of Bristol-Myers and Squibb in 1989.

Official Website:
http://www.bms.com/

Industry:
Pharmaceutical

Ticker:
NYSE:BMY

Corporate headquarters:
New York City

Sales:
$19.2B (2005)

Employees:
43,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
James M. Cornelius	Business	c. 1943		CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb
Peter R. Dolan	Business	6-Jan-1956		CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2001-06
George L. Fotiades	Business	c. 1952		COO of Cardinal Health, 2004-06
Bruce S. Gelb	Diplomat	24-Feb-1927		US Ambassador to Belgium, 1991-93
Richard Gelb	Business	1924	4-Apr-2004	CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1972-93
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.	Business	27-May-1933		CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, 1994-2001
Michael F. Mee	Business	c. 1944		CFO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1994-2001
Thomas J. Pickard	Government	1950		Acting FBI Director, 2001
Christine A. Poon	Business	c. 1951		Vice Chairman, Johnson & Johnson
Myrtle Potter	Business	1958		COO of Genentech, 2000-04
Bruce R. Ross	Business	c. 1941		Chairman of Biogen Idec
Barry W. Wilson	Business	c. 1945		Senior VP at Medtronic

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert E. Allen	Business	25-Jan-1935		CEO of AT&T, 1988-97
Lewis B. Campbell	Business	1946		CEO of Textron
Vance D. Coffman	Business	3-Apr-1944		CEO of Lockheed Martin, 1998-2004
James M. Cornelius	Business	c. 1943		CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb
Louis Freeh	Government	6-Jan-1950		FBI Director, 1993-2001
Laurie H. Glimcher	Educator	c. 1950		Professor of Immunology at Harvard
Leif Johansson	Business	30-Aug-1951		President and CEO of Volvo
James D. Robinson III	Business	19-Nov-1935		CEO of American Express, 1977-93
Vicki L. Sato	Business	c. 1947		President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, 2000-05
R. Sanders Williams	Educator	1948		Dean of Duke's Medical School

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louis Wade Sullivan	Government	3-Nov-1933		US Secretary of HHS, 1989-93

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Peter R. Dolan	Business	6-Jan-1956		CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2001-06
Ellen V. Futter	Educator	21-Sep-1949		President of Barnard College, 1980-93
Bruce S. Gelb	Diplomat	24-Feb-1927		US Ambassador to Belgium, 1991-93
Richard Gelb	Business	1924	4-Apr-2004	CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1972-93
Louis V. Gerstner	Business	1-Mar-1942		CEO of IBM, 1993-2002
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.	Business	27-May-1933		CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, 1994-2001
John Macomber	Business	13-Jan-1928		JDM Investment Group

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Susan Desmond-Hellmann	Doctor	1958		Chancellor of UCSF
Judith Giuliani	Relative	16-Dec-1954		Wife of Rudy Giuliani
Chris Policinski	Business	c. 1959		CEO of Land O'Lakes

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert J. Swieringa	Educator	c. 1942		Dean of Johnson School at Cornell

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Lynn Redgrave	Actor	8-Mar-1943	2-May-2010	The Happy Hooker

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