Sustainability / CSR strategist and communicator; President at True Blue Communications, a sustainability consultancy; IABC board member and enthusiast Attorney in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice at Foley Hoag LLP.
Jay Pelosky is a private investor, principal of J2Z Advisory LLC, an investment strategy consultancy and board member of the World Policy Institute.
All authors have no association that might pose a conflict of interest (e.g., pharmaceutical stock ownership, consultancy, advisory board membership, relevant patents, or research funding).
The authors wish to state that they have no commercial or other association (such as pharmaceutical stock ownership, consultancy, advisory board membership, patents, or research funding) that might contribute to competing interests.
According to research by Insight Public Affairs, a consultancy, some boards meet rarely the Treasury's only once in the year 2011-12, the Department of Energy's twice that year.
In the U.S., where the average CEO makes about three times the salary of his French, German or Japanese counterpart (according to Towers Perrin, a compensation consultancy), most boards wouldn't dare put specific remuneration packages to a shareholder vote (and they aren't required to).
Gottlieb himself came straight from consultancies and board memberships with various pharmaceutical companies.
They include "grant support, employment (recent, present, or anticipated), … travel, consultancies, advisory board positions, patent and royalty arrangements, stock shares, … and the like".
B. C. has received fees for consultancy, advisory boards, speaking, travel or accommodation from Takeda, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Sharpe and Dohme, AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novo Nordisk, Roche, sanofi-aventis and Novartis.
F. C-S. has received funds for attending symposia, speaking, organizing educational activities, grant research support, consultancy and advisory board from Abbott, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Gilead, Janssen Cilag, Roche, Bristol Myers Squibb, and ViiV.
