This just in: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150511005217/en/PaxVax-Appoints-Nima-Farzan-Chief-Executive-Officer It is a sign of the coming Apocalypse. I have shorted a vast amount of PaxVax stock and will take the proceeds and hide out in my mountain lair until it blows over. I will have internet access until the collapse so please keep me informed. Thanks you.
He and Vas are good, no great, friends. They are both partly responsible for the commercial success that NVD was in the U.S. Nima hired some of the geniuses that help them make that success and Vas kept many of those with him when he eventually took over Novartis Development. It should make the stockholders of both companies feel much better.
From all available facts, this is obviously what those who hire and promote people like this, are counting on.
"A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say: We did this ourselves."
There is only one problem, after tap dancing around Novartis Commercial NA America and trying keep people from noticing the the launch of Menveo was a disaster, Numa snuck off to CA. And it seems, while he was there, he worked with them to acquire other vaccines. He's like Mitt Romney, (and Vas) he doesn't "make business" he makes deals. The difference is that business makes value for others in the economy, deals only make money for those on the right side of the deal. So he, and those like him, never do anything to let others take credit for.