Department of Product Acceleration

[Anonymous]

End of the year reviews. What rating do you give the Dept. of Product Acceleration?

 

[Anonymous]

You mean OPA in Vision Care? Are they still around?

 

[Anonymous]

You mean OPA in Vision Care? Are they still around?

That's a whole lotta crack needed to come up with this.

 

[Anonymous]

Jonathan Witmer (former head of the office of product acceleration) is now the

Group Vice President & General Manager - Worldwide Hospitality Division at Waterford, Wedgwood, Royal Doulton

I give him an A for the new job.

For the OPA job I give him a C+

 

[Anonymous]

LOL He left years ago shortly after taking the OPA role - probably saw the truth for what it was long before Valeant was a twinkle in Brent's eyes... He actually had real commercial experience - something sorely lacking now...

 

[Anonymous]

Yes you are right. I worked for him when he ran Vision Care sales and OTC - solid leader, delivered results and cared about his team. All of the products that have launched in the last year or are about to launch now in vision care were his when he lead OPA.

By the way - he also launched the Biotrue solution and cleaned up the pieces after Moistureloc - maybe you should talk to someone who actually worked with him before you assign a grade...

 

[Anonymous]

Yes you are right. I worked for him when he ran Vision Care sales and OTC - solid leader, delivered results and cared about his team. All of the products that have launched in the last year or are about to launch now in vision care were his when he lead OPA.

By the way - he also launched the Biotrue solution and cleaned up the pieces after Moistureloc - maybe you should talk to someone who actually worked with him before you assign a grade...

He quit his job. Witmer gets an A for looking out for himself. The OPA gets an F.

 

[Anonymous]

You obviously don't him at all. He's the last person to look out for himself. Tell me what happened to his replacement?

 

[Anonymous]

The position was eliminated shortly after Pete was eliminated - a shame as Pete's vision was correct. They used the team to get the projects on the right track and then took credit for the results. OPA really only existed after that as a term - the project directors then reported in to commercial -- but they still pretended there was a "department" to the field and to investors -- and clearly it works as to this day so many think it still exists...

 

[Anonymous]

Yes you are right. I worked for him when he ran Vision Care sales and OTC - solid leader, delivered results and cared about his team. All of the products that have launched in the last year or are about to launch now in vision care were his when he lead OPA.

By the way - he also launched the Biotrue solution and cleaned up the pieces after Moistureloc - maybe you should talk to someone who actually worked with him before you assign a grade...

Totally agree -- Jonathan was one of the best people that I met at B&L during my time there -- glad to hear he has a great position, he deserves it.

 

[Anonymous]

So what is the deal with the hydrogen peroxide product? Who is in charge of accelerating this project as it seems like a product that has received FDA approval years ago should be on the market already.

No money for pet projects. No conferences. No patents. No publications. Until this product is on the market. That will get the attention of the scientists in the DEVELOPMENT & research department. Emphasis on the DEVELOPMENT.

 

[Anonymous]

All of these things are long since gone, including the pretense that Bausch still has the ability to bring new products to the market.

 

[Anonymous]

In the last layoff it looks as if more development people were laid off than research people? Curious. Perhaps there is a goal to rebuild R&D for the next wave of new products. Have to get some more things into the pipeline.

 

[Anonymous]

LOL - All the people that develop and commercialize products are gone - or have left. And I doubt they will ever get anyone back that actually knows how to do something other than financially engineer...

 

[Anonymous]

Does anyome think there is any chance that Valeant might wake up and bring some people back that actually know what they are doing (liek Witmer)? Or is it time to really get the resume out there as this is the Titanic?

 

[Anonymous]

Does anyome think there is any chance that Valeant might wake up and bring some people back that actually know what they are doing (liek Witmer)? Or is it time to really get the resume out there as this is the Titanic?

The only hope for Rochester is if Valeant sells Vision Care. Pharma is not integrated into Valeant and they won't let it go. They can also cut cut cut to make Pharma for efficient as there is a lot of redundancies in this area. Vision Care confuses Valeant. They may not put anything into it but they like the cash = slow death. If they sell it there is some hope for the future.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Department of Corrections

The only hope for Rochester is if Valeant sells Vision Care. Pharma is not integrated into Valeant and they won't let it go. They can also cut cut cut to make Pharma for efficient as there is a lot of redundancies in this area. Vision Care confuses Valeant. They may not put anything into it but they like the cash = slow death. If they sell it there is some hope for the future.

So buy some new glasses. This sounds like a waste of time.