Biogen Continues To Plot New Course In Naming Two Key Executives – But Is Independence Part Of The Plan?

Since his arrival as CEO nearly seven months ago, Biogen Idec Inc.’s George Scangos has been exerting his influence in ways both big and small. None may have more lasting impact than his recruitment of two top industry executives, Steven Holtzman and Doug Williams, to take the reins respectively as Biogen’s executive VP of corporate development and executive VP of R&D.