This article forms part of Scrip 100 2016's Leadership chapter, in which the pharmaceutical industry's c-suite talk exclusively to Scrip. Other articles included in this chapter are:
Christophe Weber: The Man Reshaping Takeda
Christophe Weber became president and CEO of Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical on April 1, 2015, in the process becoming both the first non-Japanese and first corporate outsider to hold the position at the more than 230-year old company. He has since initiated a ground-up refocusing and restructuring that will alter the fundamental shape of the company while retaining its core identity.
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