Board Committees:
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Age: 65
Director Since: 2017
Other Current Public Boards:
CarMax, Inc. and W.R. Berkley Corporation
Ronald E. Blaylock
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/Risk Management: Finance & Accounting: BACKGROUND
Founder, Managing Partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in industrial and business services companies in the U.S. middle market since 2006. Prior to launching GenNx360 Capital Partners, Mr. Blaylock founded and managed Blaylock & Company, an investment banking firm. He also held senior management positions at UBS, PaineWebber Group and Citicorp. Director of CarMax, Inc. and W.R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company. Former Director of Advantage Solutions Inc. (from 2019 to 2022) and Urban One, Inc. (from 2002 until 2019). Member of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall. Member of the Board of Overseers of New York University Stern School of Business. Board Member of the Mental Health Coalition.
Chairman and CEO
Age: 63
Director Since: 2018
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
None
Albert Bourla, DVM, Ph.D.
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/Human Capital Management/International Business/
Healthcare & Pharma: Medicine & Science: BACKGROUND
Chairman of the Board of Pfizer since January 2020; Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer since January 2019; Chief Operating Officer of Pfizer from January 2018 until December 2018; Group President, Pfizer Innovative Health from June 2016 until December 2017; Group President, Global Innovative Pharma Business of Pfizer from February 2016 until June 2016 (responsible for Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare from 2014). President and General Manager of Established Products Business Unit of Pfizer from 2010 until 2013. Chair of the Board of PhRMA and Chair of the Board of The Pfizer Foundation, which promotes access to quality healthcare. Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Partnership for New York City and Member of the Board of Catalyst.
Age: 55
Director Since: 2024
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
The Boeing Company
Mortimer J. Buckley
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/Finance & Accounting/International Business/Risk Management/Human Capital Management: Technology & Cybersecurity: BACKGROUND
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vanguard from 2018 to 2024. Previously, held a number of senior leadership positions at Vanguard, including Vanguard’s Chief Investment Officer from 2013 to 2017, overseeing the company’s managed stock, bond and money market portfolios as well as its investment research and methodology, and Chief Information Officer from 2001 to 2006. In addition, led Vanguard’s Personal Investor division from 2006 to 2012. Served as Chairman of the Board of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia from 2011 to 2017. Director of The Boeing Company.
Age: 67
Director Since: 2020
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
None
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, M.P.H.
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations: Medicine & Science/Healthcare & Pharma/Academia: Technology & Cybersecurity: BACKGROUND
Board member of OpenAI, National Resilience, Inc. and Stand Up To Cancer. Senior Advisor at Lazard, Inc. in the Healthcare Group. Senior Advisor at GMRI from 2020 to 2021. CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a private foundation committed to enhancing global healthcare, reducing extreme poverty and expanding educational opportunities, from 2014 to 2020. She served as the first female, and ninth overall, Chancellor of UCSF from 2009 to 2014. Dr. Desmond-Hellmann remains an Adjunct Professor at UCSF. Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. From 1995 through 2009, she was employed at Genentech where she served as President of Product Development from 2005 to 2009, overseeing pre-clinical and clinical development, business development and product portfolio management. Prior to Genentech, she was Associate Director, Clinical Cancer Research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Director of: (i) Meta from 2013 to 2019; and (ii) Procter & Gamble from 2010 to 2017. Received the Hockfield Cancer Research Prize (2023).
Age: 67
Director Since: 2015
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and Unum Group
Joseph J. Echevarria
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/International Business/Risk Management: Finance & Accounting: Government & Public Policy: BACKGROUND
President of UM since October 2024. Served as the CEO of Deloitte LLP, a global provider of professional services, from 2011 until his retirement in 2014. During his 36-year tenure with Deloitte, served in various leadership roles, including Deputy Managing Partner, Southeast Region, Audit Managing Partner and U.S. Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Echevarria served as CEO of UHealth of UM from 2022 until 2024, and served as Trustee of UM since 2011. Serves as Chair Emeritus of former President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance and as an advisor to the Obama Foundation. Chairman of the Board of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Director of Unum Group, a provider of financial protection benefits. Director of Xerox Holdings Corporation from 2017 until 2023. Former member of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.
Age: 52
Director Since: 2019
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
Illumina, Inc. and Tempus AI, Inc.
Scott Gottlieb, MD
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Government & Public Policy/Medicine & Science/Healthcare & Pharma: Technology & Cybersecurity: BACKGROUND
Partner, New Enterprise Associates, Inc.’s Healthcare Investment Team and Resident Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute since 2019. Served as the 23rd Commissioner of the FDA from 2017 to 2019. Prior to serving as Commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Gottlieb held several roles in the public and private sectors, including serving as a Venture Partner to New Enterprise Associates, Inc. from 2007 to 2017. Director of Illumina, Inc. and Tempus AI, Inc. Director of Aetion, Inc. a private healthcare data technology company, Comanche Biopharma, a private maternal medicine biopharmaceutical company, and Xaira Therapeutics, Inc. Board Member of National Resilience, Inc. Scientific Advisory Board Member of CellCarta. Member of the National Academy of Medicine and a contributor to the financial news network CNBC.
Age: 74
Director Since: 2020
Other Current Public Boards:
None
Susan Hockfield, Ph.D.
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Academia/Business Leadership & Operations/Medicine & Science: Government & Public Policy: BACKGROUND
Professor of Neuroscience and President Emerita at MIT. Served as MIT’s sixteenth president from 2004 to 2012. Member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Prior to joining MIT, she was the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1998 to 2002 and Provost from 2003 to 2004 at Yale University. Board Member of Repertoire Immune Medicines, Cajal Neuroscience (until 2024) and Break Through Cancer. Founding co-chair of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society for Neuroscience. Recipient of the Charles L. Branch BrainHealth Award, Charles Judson Herrick Award from the American Association of Anatomists, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Award from Yale University, the Meliora Citation from the University of Rochester, the Golden Plate Award from the Academy of Achievement, the Amelia Earhart Award from the Women’s Union, the Edison Achievement Award, the Pinnacle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Geoffrey Beene Builders of Science Award from Research!America. She previously served as a Director of General Electric Company from 2006 until 2018 and of Qualcomm Incorporated from 2012 until 2016.
Age: 72
Director Since: 2018
Board Committees:
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
None
Dan R. Littman, MD, Ph.D.
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Medicine & Science/Healthcare & Pharma/Academia: BACKGROUND
Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine (NYU Grossman). Professor, Department of Microbiology at NYU Grossman since 1995 and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, since 1987. Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco from 1985 to 1995. Member of the National Academy of the Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology. Founding Scientific Advisory Board Member of Vedanta Biosciences and Scientific co-founder and Advisory Board Member of Immunai, Inc. Member of Scientific Advisory Boards at the Cancer Research Institute, the Broad Institute, IMIDomics, Scleroderma Research Foundation, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Whitehead Institute of MIT Board of Advising Scientists and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of Parker Institute of Cancer Immunotherapy. Awarded the New York City Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology (2004), the Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine (2013), the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science (2016), and the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology (2016).
Lead Independent Director
Age: 61
Director Since: 2013
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
Adobe Inc.
Shantanu Narayen
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/International Business/Finance & Accounting/Human
Capital Management: Technology & Cybersecurity/Risk Management: BACKGROUND
Chair since 2017 and Chief Executive Officer since 2007 of Adobe, one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. President of Adobe until December 2021. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he held various leadership roles at Adobe, including President and Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Products, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Development. Vice Chairman of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum. Consistently named one of the world’s best CEOs by Barron’s magazine and, in 2020, ranked as a Fortune “Businessperson of the Year.”
Age: 67
Director Since: 2007
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
Intuit Inc.
Suzanne Nora Johnson
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/Risk Management/International Business: Finance & Accounting: Healthcare & Pharma: BACKGROUND
Retired Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs, since 2007. During her 21-year tenure with Goldman Sachs, she served in various leadership roles, including Chair of the Global Markets Institute, Head of Global Research, and Head of Global Health Care. Board Chair of Intuit Inc.; Co-Chair, Board of Trustees of The Brookings Institution; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Director of American International Group, Inc. from 2008 to 2020 and Visa, Inc. from 2007 to 2022.
Age: 60
Director Since: 2020
Board Committees:
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
The Coca-Cola Company
James Quincey
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/International Business/Finance & Accounting/Human
Capital Management: Technology & Cybersecurity: BACKGROUND
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. He was appointed Chairman of the Board in 2019 and CEO in 2017. Prior to his appointment as CEO in 2017, he held various leadership roles at The Coca-Cola Company, including President and Chief Operating Officer from 2015 to 2017, President of the Europe Group, President of the Northwest Europe and Nordics business unit and President of the Mexico division. Director of US-China Business Council and Catalyst.
Age: 65
Director Since: 2014
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
None
James C. Smith
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/Finance & Accounting/Human Capital Management/International
Business/Risk Management: BACKGROUND
Chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a London-based charity supported by Thomson Reuters. President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Reuters, a provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals from 2012 through March 2020, its Chief Operating Officer from September 2011 to December 2011, and Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Professional Division, from 2008 to 2011. Prior to the acquisition of Reuters Group PLC by The Thomson Corporation in 2008, served as Chief Operating Officer of Thomson Corporation and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Learning’s Academic and Reference Group. Director of Refinitiv, a privately held global provider of financial market data and infrastructure until its acquisition by the London Stock Exchange Group in January 2021. Member of the Board of Governors of Marshall University. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution. Director of Thomson Reuters from 2012 until 2020.
Age: 58
Director Since: 2024
Key Skills:
Other Current Public Boards:
Shell plc
Cyrus Taraporevala
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Business Leadership & Operations/International Business/Finance & Accounting/Risk Management/
Human Capital Management: BACKGROUND
President and Chief Executive Officer of State Street Global Advisors from 2017 until 2022. Previously, held a variety of senior leadership roles at State Street Global Advisors, including responsibility for leading the global institutional client, product and marketing teams. Prior to joining State Street Advisors, held numerous leadership roles in asset management including at Fidelity Investments, The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Legg Mason Inc., and Citigroup Inc. Spent 14 years at McKinsey & Company, the management consulting firm. Director of Shell plc. Also serves as a Director of Bridgepoint Group plc, a London-based international alternative asset fund management group. Member of the Board of Trustees of two not-for-profit organizations: GBH, a public media broadcaster, and The Trustees of Reservations, a Massachusetts-based land conservation organization.
Business Leadership & Operations
Experience serving in a senior leadership role develops skills in core management areas and provides a valuable practical understanding of the operations of complex organizations
International Business
Leadership experience in organizations that operate across diverse and dynamic political systems, economic conditions, and regulatory environments provides valuable perspectives for oversight of the risks and opportunities within Pfizer’s extensive global business operations
Medicine & Science
Knowledge of relevant sciences and experience as a healthcare provider provides Directors with a deep understanding of Pfizer’s key therapeutic areas and an appreciation for our mission to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives
Healthcare & Pharma
Experience as an executive and/or in an operational role at a pharmaceutical or biotechnology focused organization or company provides Directors with a deep understanding of Pfizer’s business and key strategic and operational considerations
Finance & Accounting
Expertise in finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, investment management and financial reporting processes enables Directors to effectively monitor and assess Pfizer’s operating and strategic performance and capital allocation decisions, and oversee accurate financial reporting and robust controls
Risk Management
Experience identifying, managing and mitigating key strategic and operational risks promotes effective oversight of Pfizer’s risks and opportunities and contributes to effective oversight of strategy in a variety of operating environments
Academia
Experience in a leadership or senior advisory position at a scientific, research or academic institution provides Directors with deep technical subject matter expertise related to the intricacies of Pfizer’s R&D pipeline
Human Capital Management
Experience with human capital management responsibilities assists the Board in overseeing succession planning, talent development and Pfizer’s executive compensation program
Government & Public Policy
Understanding of the complex regulatory and governmental environment in which Pfizer operates allows the Board to oversee the company’s long-term strategy by incorporating current and potential changes in public policy and regulation
Technology & Cybersecurity
Experience understanding and overseeing information technology and cybersecurity matters is critical to mitigating risks to our business, and to Board oversight of Pfizer’s actions to address innovation and competitiveness in a rapidly evolving technological age
The Audit Committee
Meetings Held in 2024: 11
Suzanne Nora Johnson
Chair
Ronald E. Blaylock
Member
Mortimer J. Buckley
Member
Joseph J. Echevarria
Member
James C. Smith
Member
Cyrus Taraporevala
Member The Committee’s primary responsibilities include:
The Committee has established policies and procedures for the pre-approval of all services provided by the firm. It also has established procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment, on a confidential basis, of complaints received by Pfizer regarding its accounting, internal controls and auditing matters. Further details of the role of the Audit Committee, as well as the Audit Committee Report, may be found in "Item 2 — Ratification of Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm" on page 37. The Audit Committee is governed by a Board-approved Charter which is available on our website at https://investors.pfizer.com/Investors/Corporate-Governance/Board-Committees--Charters/. All Members are Independent and Financially Literate All Members qualify as “Audit Committee Financial Experts” as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission The Compensation Committee
Meetings Held in 2024: 7
The Committee reviews and approves the company’s overall compensation philosophy and oversees the administration of our executive compensation and benefit programs, policies and practices. Its responsibilities also include:
The Committee has the authority to delegate any of its responsibilities to another committee, officer and/or subcommittee, as the Committee may deem appropriate in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law, rules, regulations and NYSE listing standards. The Compensation Committee is governed by a Board-approved Charter which is available on our website at https://investors.pfizer.com/Investors/Corporate-Governance/Board-Committees--Charters/. Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation. During 2024 and as of the date of this Proxy Statement, none of the members of the Committee was or is an officer or employee of Pfizer, and no executive officer of the company served or serves on the compensation committee or board of any company that employed or employs any member of Pfizer’s Compensation Committee or Board of Directors. All Members are Independent All Members are “non-employee directors” as defined in Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 The Governance Committee
Meetings Held in 2024: 5
Joseph J. Echevarria
Chair
Mortimer J. Buckley
Member
Helen H. Hobbs, MD(1)
Member
Dan R. Littman, MD, Ph.D.
Member The Committee oversees the practices, policies and procedures of the Board and its committees. Its responsibilities include:
The Governance Committee is governed by a Board-approved Charter which is available on our website at https://investors.pfizer.com/Investors/Corporate-Governance/Board-Committees--Charters/. All Members are Independent (1) In April 2025, Dr. Hobbs will retire from the Board and her committee roles. The Regulatory and Compliance Committee
Meetings Held in 2024: 4
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Chair
Helen H. Hobbs, MD(1)
Member
Susan Hockfield, Ph.D.
Member
Dan R. Littman, MD, Ph.D.
Member
Suzanne Nora Johnson
Member The Committee’s primary responsibilities include:
The Committee makes recommendations to the Compensation Committee concerning the extent, if any, to which the incentive-based compensation of any executive, senior manager, compliance personnel and/or attorney involved in any significant misconduct resulting in certain government or regulatory action, or other person with direct supervision over such employee, should be reduced, extinguished or recouped. The Regulatory and Compliance Committee is governed by a Board-approved Charter which is available on our website at https://investors.pfizer.com/Investors/Corporate-Governance/Board-Committees--Charters/. All Members are Independent (1) In April 2025, Dr. Hobbs will retire from the Board and her committee roles. The Science and Technology Committee
Meetings Held in 2024: 4
Helen H. Hobbs, MD(1)
Chair
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Member
Susan Hockfield, Ph.D.
Member
Dan R. Littman, MD, Ph.D.
Member The Committee is responsible for periodically examining management’s strategic direction of and investment in the company’s biopharmaceutical R&D and technology initiatives. Its responsibilities include:
The Committee also identifies and evaluates emerging issues, assesses the performance of R&D leaders, and evaluates the sufficiency of review by external scientific experts. The Science and Technology Committee is governed by a Board-approved Charter which is available on our website at https://investors.pfizer.com/Investors/Corporate-Governance/Board-Committees--Charters/. All Members are Independent (1) In April 2025, Dr. Hobbs will retire from the Board and her committee roles. Effective as of the 2025 Annual Meeting, Dr. Desmond-Hellmann will become the Chair of the Science and Technology Committee. |