Gilead reshuffles senior leadership team

25 May 2016

US biotech Gilead Sciences (Nasdaq: GILD) has added two names to its senior leadership team, with Kevin Young taking on the chief operating officer role and Martin Silverstein becoming executive vice president for strategy.

Paul Carter, the company’s executive vice president for commercial operations, is to leave Gilead and Mr Young will assume responsibility for the company’s worldwide commercial organization as well as its facilities and operations.

Mr Young was Gilead’s executive vice president of commercial operations from 2004 to 2014, and since then he has been a senior advisor to the company.

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