ITEM 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On August 26, 2021, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Teva Pharmaceutical
Industries Ltd. ("Teva" or the "Company"), elected Dr. Tal Zaks to serve as a
member of the Board, effective October 1, 2021, until Teva's 2022 annual meeting
of shareholders. The Board determined that Dr. Zaks qualifies as an independent
director under the listing rules of the New York Stock Exchange. The Board has
appointed Dr. Zaks to serve on the Science and Technology Committee.
Dr. Zaks, M.D., Ph.D., age 56, has served as Chief Medical Officer of Moderna,
Inc. since 2015 and has announced his departure effective late September 2021.
During the period until his departure, he is serving as a special advisor to the
CEO of Moderna. From 2010 to 2015, he held senior development positions at
Sanofi, including Senior Vice President and Head of Global Oncology. From 2008
to 2010, he served as Vice President of Clinical Research, Oncology at Cephalon.
From 2004 to 2008, he served as Director, Clinical Development and Translational
Medicine at GlaxoSmithKline. From 1996-1999, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
National Cancer Institute. Dr. Zaks has also served as an adjunct Associate
Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania since 2004 and as an
adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center since 2017. He
has served on the Board of Directors of Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc since 2016.
Dr. Zaks received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University in Israel,
conducted post-doctoral research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and
completed clinical training in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital,
followed by a fellowship in medical oncology at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has also been awarded Ph.D. honoris causa from Bar-Ilan University.
Dr. Zaks has a unique combination of medical training, broad academic knowledge
and experience and executive experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. His
insights and experience in biopharmaceutical development, through his executive
and non-executive roles, are expected to provide the Board with a broad
scientific perspective and understanding of pharmaceutical product development,
science and technology.
Dr. Zaks has declared in writing that he possesses the requisite skills and
expertise, as well as sufficient time, to perform his duties as a director of
Teva, as required pursuant to the Israeli Companies Law, 5759-1999.
Dr. Zaks will receive the same compensation as Teva's other non-executive
directors, which is described in the Company's definitive proxy statement filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 22, 2020.
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