Ipsen replaces Cynthia Schwalm with Amgen's Richard Paulson

12 January 2018

French drugmaker Ipsen (Euronext: IPN) has poached an Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) executive to end its search for a successor to Cynthia Schwalm.

Ms Schwalm was president and chief executive of Ipsen North America from August 2014 to October 2017, and during this period she helped to create subsidiaries in the USA and Canada as the company identified the region as a key growth market.

Her successor, in the role of executive vice-president and CEO of Ipsen North America, is Richard Paulson, who will join next month from the US biotech Amgen, (Nasdaq: AMGN) where he most recently served as vice-president and general manager of the Oncology Business Unit.

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