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Rick Anderson is Company Group Chairman, Johnson & Johnson, and Worldwide Franchise Chairman, Cordis Corporation. In his position, Rick is responsible for global leadership of the Cordis Cardiology, Cordis Endovascular, Cordis Neurovascular and the Nitinol Devices and Components (NDC) businesses. In October 2003, Rick was promoted to Worldwide President, Cordis Cardiology. As president, Rick led the company to global market leadership in the drug-eluting stent category. Since 2005, Rick has also served as Leader, CardioVascular Franchise and helped grow the overall Cordis Franchise into a $4 billion global enterprise. He joined Cordis Cardiology in August 2002, as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Rick was a key architect behind the launch of the world’s first drug-eluting stent the CYPHER® Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent. This breakthrough innovation for the treatment of restenosis (reblockage) has been used to treat more than two million patients worldwide. Rick also served as Vice President, Immunology Franchise, at Centocor, Inc., which merged with Johnson & Johnson in 1999. He was responsible for worldwide sales and marketing of the company's fastest growing, billion dollar biotechnology product, REMICADE® (infliximab), which is indicated for a variety of immune-mediated inflammatory conditions, including Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Rick served in senior leadership positions with other international health care and medical device companies. At Racal HealthCare Inc., he was Vice President, Global Marketing and responsible for respiratory devices and before that, he spent a decade with Boehringer Mannheim Pharmaceuticals and Allergan Pharmaceuticals in various U.S. and global sales, sales management and marketing management roles. Rick holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from Mississippi State University and has completed graduate level course work at Indiana University and Duke University. He served five years in the United States Army where he obtained the rank of captain. | 