Pfizer Board of Directors Names Jeffrey B. Kindler Chief Executive Officer

01-Aug-2006

The Pfizer Board of Directors has named Jeffrey B. Kindler Pfizer's chief executive officer. He succeeds Hank McKinnell, who will remain Pfizer's chairman of the board until his retirement in February, 2007. Mr. Kindler has been elected to the Pfizer Board of Directors.

Mr. Kindler currently serves as Pfizer's vice chairman and general counsel and, since joining the company in 2002, has played an increasingly important role. He is responsible for many of the company's major corporate functions, including worldwide legal affairs, corporate and regulatory compliance, government relations, corporate communications, public policy development, corporate citizenship, global security and philanthropy. He has been a member of the senior-most governing body of the company since 2002.

Mr. Kindler, 51, joined Pfizer in 2002 as senior vice president and general counsel. He became executive vice president and general counsel in 2004 and vice chairman and general counsel in 2005, leading both the legal and corporate affairs divisions. Prior to joining Pfizer, Mr. Kindler served as chairman and chief executive officer of Boston Market Corporation, owned by McDonald's, and president of Partner Brands, also owned by McDonald's. He was executive vice president, corporate relations and general counsel of McDonald's from 1997 to 2001, and from 1996 to 1997 served as that company's senior vice president and general counsel.

Prior to McDonald's, Mr. Kindler was vice president and senior counsel for litigation and legal policy for General Electric. A former partner at the Washington law firm of Williams & Connolly, Mr. Kindler also served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. and to Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also worked at the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Kindler earned his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Tufts University in 1977 and J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1980, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Mr. Kindler is a board member of the Brennan Center for Justice, Corporate ProBono.Org, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, the Legal Aid Society, the Manhattan Theater Club, the New York Philharmonic, and the Partnership for New York City among other civic and charitable organizations.

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