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Jean-Pierre Garnier, Retired CEO, GlaxoSmithKline

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JEAN-PIERRE GARNIER, Ph.D., has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Actelion Ltd. (biopharmaceuticals) since September 2011. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Pierre Fabre SA (pharmaceuticals and cosmetics) from 2008 to 2010 and as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Member of the Board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline plc (pharmaceuticals) from 2000 to 2008. Dr. Garnier served as Chief Executive Officer of SmithKline Beecham plc in 2000 and as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Member of the Board of Directors of SmithKline Beecham plc from 1996 to 2000. Dr. Garnier is also a director of Renault S.A. and Chairman of Cerenis Therapeutics (biopharmaceutical development). In 2009, he was made a Knight Commander of the British Empire. In 2007, he was promoted from Chevalier to Officier de la Légion d’Honneur of France. In 2006, he was named to the global list of top 20 CEOs by the Best Practice Institute. He was previously Chairman of NormOxys, Inc. (biopharmaceuticals) from 2010 to 2011, and a board member of the Stanford Advisory Council on Interdisciplinary Biosciences, Weill Cornell Medical College and the Dubai International Capital Advisory Board. He is currently an operating partner at Advent International (global private equity) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Paul Newman Foundation. Dr. Garnier is 64 and has been a UTC director since 1997.

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