Ari Maizel - New Director of Marketing at Dendreon

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Ari was just hired as the new Director of Marketing. I worked with Ari in the past and he is a top notch marketing talent. He is a very strong addition to our sales & marketing team. He formerly was the Manager of ZYTIGA Global Strategic Marketing at Johnson & Johnson so he will be a real asset in our competitive actions against ZYTIGA.
 












Maybe just maybe the company is actually doing something for Provenge's benefit. This whole story is really such a shame because Provenge has such great potential and was derailed by actions motivated by greed at the very top.
 












Ari is a highly competent marketing professional and a pleasure to work with. I worked with him in the past. It seems like everyday that Dendreon is becoming a stronger organization. I enjoy coming to work everday and working with our team to help cancer patients. Sales in my territory are very strong this quarter and I am making very nice money. Best decision of my life was deciding to come to work here.
 






Agree with OP. This guy seems very very qualified and hopefully he can help turn things around. Hopefully the company can keep him around. Let's hope his overall compensation is commensurate with his big responsibilities and also completely on a fair scale as compared to every single job description of every other employee of the company. Director of marketing for a struggling biotech is one of the most important jobs in the whole company.

"Managers that are allowed to hire their friends into positions can choose to pay those friends more than others on your staff. If your employees find out that cronyism is distorting the pay scale in your company, you could be faced with turnover of key employees."
 






In my opinion JD got a raw deal. There's a guy who may be the most important person in the whole company. Pretty sure he only got 40,000 in stock options. Seems like it's all random bullshit.
 






Someone recently got 50k in stock options and they probably aren't anticipating any out of the ordinary workload for that position. They seem to think "things" are BASELESS and without merit. She said it herself!

Heavy workload? What heavy workload?

JD has a heavy workload. So will AM.

Welcome AM. You may not be reminded of this here but I'm sure your heart guides you to know that its cancer patients first and foremost before anything else.
 


















We've been hearing for years about the talent of new hires.

Here is an example. We were told by MG about RR's past experience.

"Our commercial team is led by our Senior Vice President of Global Commercial Operations, Robert Rosen, whose extensive oncology experience includes the launch of several major products including Eloxatin, Herceptin, and Nexavar. Rob fills the gap in our organization that has existed for approximately six months and we are glad to have him aboard."
 






Sadly too, we've been hearing about positions having many month gaps in being filled.

The Chief Compliance Officer position was unfilled for a span of about 4 months from about September 2011 to January 2012.

Finally the position was filled with the guy from SG just a few miles away. What took so long? Was it a nationwide search and just by coincidence they ended up bringing in someone from a major biotech a few miles away?
 






Seems like they are learning now. No gap in the HR position.

Rich R still here but leaving on the 15th. Hopefully he enjoys that full year or 1.5 yr or however much he got for that lump sum severance payment for resigning for good reason.
 






Maybe they are learning.

No gap for the HR position. RR is here until the 15th.

Then he gets to enjoy his lump sum severance payment for resigning. Must be nice to get a lump sum like that, but you get destroyed on taxes until you do your taxes the following year. Since he waited until February, that will be a long term loan to the gov't.
 




































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Maybe they are learning.

No gap for the HR position. RR is here until the 15th.

Then he gets to enjoy his lump sum severance payment for resigning. Must be nice to get a lump sum like that, but you get destroyed on taxes until you do your taxes the following year. Since he waited until February, that will be a long term loan to the gov't.
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Maybe if you officially resign for "good reason" at the end of a year, you get the lump sum at that time even if effective date of resignation is the following year. His federal tax rate would have been at 36% and not 39%.

Maybe you can even resign for "good reason" on day 1 of a job and tell them it will be effective 20 years from now. Even Susie Orman never gave that tax tip.
 






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