Upjohn's Theodore Cooper
Executive Summary
Company Chairman and CEO, age 64, died April 22 of complications of cancer. Prior to joining Upjohn as a board member in 1978, Cooper served as HHS assistant secretary for health and associate director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and as dean of Cornell University Medical School. Cooper was named exec VP at Upjohn in 1980, vice chairman in 1984 and chairman and CEO in 1987. A search committee for his successor will be headed by Upjohn board member, and former Kellogg chairman, William LaMothe. Upjohn President Ley Smith will continue as acting chairman and CEO ("The Pink Sheet" April 19, T&G-2).