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Another GSK vaccine exec jumps ship for biotech CEO role
GlaxoSmithKline
Amir Reichman is stepping down.
Reichman is leaving his post as head of global vaccines engineering core technology at GSK to eventually head up operations at BiondVax Pharmaceuticals. Reichman will split duties with BiondVax’s founder and CEO Ron Babecoff until March 2 as he wraps his time at GSK. Reichman joined GSK in 2015 as part of a multibillion-dollar deal that saw GSK trade off its oncology assets for Novartis’ vaccines unit. Reichman held various positions at Novartis in its vaccine supply chain unit before becoming director of GSK’s global vaccines supply chain and then head of global vaccines engineering