Bring it on Tom!! You were a fantastic leader and I bet there are a lot of people who would work under your leadership again in a NY second!
No, but funny you should mention him. He is back too. Finally got his "CEO" job, at a company of 3 people! It's some Japanese company working on an anti-fungal. Once again, not any originality being shown. He signed on Kirk Raab as COB and hired in a previous regulatory person from Connetics.
ConneticsSecurtiesLitigation.com Check this out. These thieves have "settled" in the class action settlement. No guilt admitted. But... - they let a VP who illegally traded CNCT shares stay on employment (until caught) - they stuffed wholesalers to achieve net sales targets from wall street (for multiple quarters) and finally had to restate earnings. - and misled everyone (including the FDA) on an key acne product clinical trial. Pathetic. Next steps - Wiggans sells Peplan for millions - considering "public service" - God help us. - Vontz is a CEO in a nothing company (saving the world at one toenail at a time) - Higgins is CEO in Ligand - another nothing company, only public. - Krochmal - CEO in yet another nothing Derm company. If you want to settle, check out the website...and then lets close the book on these losers.
I agree with those who say that Tom has marginal ethics. For example, how about running for Govenor of Kansas as a Democrat while being a lifetime Republican. Or, getting an agreement to sell Peplin (and pocket millions) after agreeing to a sweetheart deal with MPM capital (while he was Chairman) in which they invested at a deep discount only to sell the shares for tens of millions gain a year later. Not illegal, but ethically over the line. Shame on anyone who works for a guy like that. He now "promotes" his CFO at Connectics (John Higgins) even though he was about to fire him for incompetence! Wow....