According to an 3 April press release from GlaxoSmithKline K.K. (GSK), Kanako Kikuchi, previously managing director for strategy, marketing and multi-channel, has been appointed as the firm’s new president and a representative director. Phillipe Fauchet, the outgoing president, who serves on the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan Executive Committee, has been named chairman.
Having spent seven years at the firm, Fauchet will now focus on the firm’s global activities.
Kikuchi, who joined GSK in 2013, will draw on several years of experience in senior roles at a number of pharmaceutical firms.