Pharmaceutical and healthcare information provider IMS Health, US, has announced that Ari Bousbib has been named CEO, effective September 1, 2010. Bousbib joins IMS after a successful 14-year career with United Technologies Corporation (UTC), where he served in several senior leadership positions, most recently as president of UTC's Commercial Companies.
The change is part of a planned succession in which current Chairman and CEO David R. Carlucci will continue to serve as chairman of IMS Health for a transition period.
Bousbib is a former partner at global management and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, and has been serving on the Board of Directors of The Home Depot since 2007. In May 2008, he was appointed by the President of the United States to serve on the President's Commission on White House Fellowships, America's most prestigious programme for leadership and public service.
IMS Health was purchased by TPG Capital, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), and Leonard Green & Partners in a take-private transaction that closed on February 26, 2010.
