Todd pierce was a slick-talking politico who used "compassion" and Genentech patient advocacy as a ruse for his public perception, when in reality everyone knew he was a surreptitiously vengeful exec who stamped out anyone who dissented with his incompetent and misguided strategy over the years.
837 department re-orgs later he and his senior leader shills found a way to remain at the helm during Art Levinson's reign, while the revolving door of middle mgmt layoffs continued.
Under Pierce's watch, how many millions of dollars were thrown at business intelligence and other projects that were eventually scrapped? And of those that made it to production, how many were chronically delayed?
gne/roche will ultimately be a better place without him (hard to imagine an incoming CIO doing a worse job).
