Forbes names ICON in list of Best Employers in America for Women
ICON recognised as top employer for women in anonymous survey of 75,000 employees
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE) — ICON plc, (NASDAQ: ICLR) a leading global provider of drug development and commercialisation services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries today announced that it has been recognised in the 2020 Forbes List of America’s Best Employers for Women for the second consecutive year.
We are thrilled to welcome Mr. Liam Kelly to our Board of Directors.
Liam J. Kelly is the Chairman, President and CEO of Teleflex. Mr. Kelly became Chairman of the Teleflex Board on May 1, 2020 and has served as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer January 1, 2018. He joined Teleflex in April 2009 and held a variety of roles, including President of EMEA. He was then promoted to the position of Executive Vice President and President, International in June 2012. In April 2014, Mr. Kelly was appointed Executive Vice President and President, Americas. In April 2015, Mr. Kelly was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. From May 2016 to December 2017, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to joining Teleflex, Mr. Kelly worked at Hill-Rom where he held management and senior leadership positions from 1999 to 2009. He was the Vice President of International Marketing and Product Development and previously had been Managing Director of their UK & Ireland businesses.
Mr. Kelly was named to the Colfax Corporation Board of Directors on January 1, 2020. Mr. Kelly also serves on their Governance Committee. Mr. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Business Studies from University of Limerick.
Almac ranked number 5 on Ulster Business top 100 companies list
County Armagh headquartered Almac Group has climbed three positions to number five in this year’s Ulster Business “Most valuable businesses” table.
The global contract development and manufacturing organisation, that provides services across the drug development lifecycle to the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, also moved from tenth to eighth in the supplementary list of “most profitable companies in Northern Ireland”.
WSFS’ first person of color in the C-suite readies for role as ‘organizational change agent’
By Jeff Blumenthal Reporter, Philadelphia Business Journal
Michael Conklin has lived and worked in the Midwest for his entire life, most recently serving nearly eight years as senior vice president of global human resources for the nation’s fifth-largest bank, U.S. Bancorp. He oversaw the Minneapolis-based company’s consumer and business banking units as well as payment services — leading a team of 147 human resources professionals and 46,000 employees.
The Wisconsin native has not spent much time in the Philadelphia region save for regular visits to a Folcroft facility while at ConAgra Foods. So why uproot his family and leave the massive U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) to become executive vice president and chief human resources officer for WSFS Financial Corp. (NYSE: WSFS), a company 1,100 miles away that is only a fraction the size?
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Pennsylvania next month will roll out a new app that will notify residents if they are close contacts of someone with a confirmed case of Covid-19.
Covid Alert Pa is being developed for the Pennsylvania Department of Health with the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Irish app maker called NearForm that built a Covid-19 tracker for the Irish government.
“This app uses Bluetooth technology to let a person know that they have been exposed to Covid-19 without compromising their identity or location,” said Dr. Rachel Levine, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Levine made the announcement during a news conference Tuesday.
One of the persistent challenges in stemming the outbreak has been notifying people who have come within six feet of an infected person for a minimum of 15 minutes. It’s sometimes hard, for example, for people who are facing a Covid-19 diagnosis to tell a case investigator all the places they’ve been and for how long. And, said Levine, if an infected person had been in a store or a restaurant or somewhere else, it’s likely they didn’t know the names and contact numbers of everyone they were in contact with.
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