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Novartis promotes Symonds: Jonathan Symonds will succeed current Novartis Chief Financial Officer Raymund Breu after he retires in March 2010, the Swiss firm announces May 13. Symonds, currently managing director of investment banking at Goldman Sachs, will start as deputy CFO and CFO-designate Sept. 1. Symonds previously was CFO at AstraZeneca for eight years