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Without regard to specific hormones, I'd simply say leadership still appears too heavy period. Still looks like a fair amount of waste going on in Merck's field sales division.
 






Commercial Operations Group – West, reporting to Jackie Neilson

Robin Blackburn, DCO, Phoenix, AZ
Matthew Forney, DCO, Houston, TX
Gregory Hernandez, DCO, San Antonio, TX
Marilyn Roche Krahe, DCO, San Diego, CA
Lisa LaMond, DCO, Seattle, WA
Joseph Panegasser, DCO, Salt Lake City, UT
Alexander Petrovich, DCO, Dallas, TX
Michael Stabbert, DCO, San Francisco, CA
Theresa Strombom, DCO, Los Angeles, CA
Timothy Salfi, JV Sales SBD
Joseph Torelli, JV Sales SBD
Christopher Bianco, PC Vaccine Director

Commercial Operations Group – North Central, reporting to Tom Cannell

Rodney Cobb, DCO, St. Louis, MO
Patti Drake, DCO, Kansas City, MO
James Dunn, DCO, Denver, CO
Lisa French, DCO, Cincinnati, OH
Steve Hisaw, DCO, Cleveland, OH
Keith Ingstad, DCO. Minneapolis, MN
Guarav Lal, DCO, Chicago, IL
Todd Purdy, DCO, Indianapolis, IN
Scott Smith, DCO, Detroit, MI
Mark Stevens, JV Sales SBD
Michael Tu, JV Sales SBD
Tom Lyon, PC Vaccine Director

Commercial Operations Group – Northeast, reporting to Patrick Magri

Thomas Goga, DCO, Richmond, VA
Eric Gustafson, DCO, Washington, DC
Denise Juliano, DCO, Manhattan, NY
Todd Neuville, DCO, Albany, NY
George Pla, DCO, Long Island, NY
Richard Roberts, DCO, Philadelphia, PA
Randall Scheid, DCO, Boston, MA
Roger Tappen, DCO, Newark, NJ
Joseph Vazquez, DCO, Pittsburgh, PA
Ronald Coursey, JV Sales SBD
Rick Shalaby, JV Sales SBD
John Kanaras, PC Vaccine Director

Commercial Operations Group – Southeast, reporting to Tom Netzer

Susan Baumgartner, DCO, Columbia, SC
Scott Britton, DCO, Knoxville, TN
Marc Dervishian, DCO, Atlanta, GA
Elizabeth Eastland, DCO, Jacksonville, FL
James Fuqua, DCO, Birmingham, AL
Smithey Hashagen, DCO, Charlotte, NC
James Kessinger, DCO, Miami, FL
Paul Knoflicek, DCO, Oklahoma City, OK
Derrick Romaelle, DCO, Tampa, FL
Valerie Green, JV Sales SBD
Andre Moxie, JV Sales SBD
Warren Lambert, PC Vaccine Director

Hospital Commercial Operations – reporting to Matt Strasburger

Robert Baranick, Hospital Director, North Central
Ronald Kierpa, Hospital Director, Southeast
Leonardo Mendez, Hospital Director, Northeast
Lisa Monk, Hospital Director, West
Mark James, HSA Director
Eliott Zarett, HSA Director

Customer Sales & Policy – reporting to Rich Patrylak

Patrick Counihan, Healthcare Systems
David Hartenbaum, HMO Contracting
Tim Fratus, National Accounts
Mike Kelly, Federal/State
Rosemary Hoy, Pharmacy
Chuck Grezlak, Government Affairs
Harry Rieck, Hospital National Account

Customer Strategies & Solutions (CSS) - reporting to Denise Allen Williams

Thomas Loose, HCP Strategy
Sam Jones, Payer Strategy
Jamie Rosati, HCC Strategy
Cynthia Smith, Healthcare System Strategy
Carrie Bourdow, Hospital/AMC Strategy
John Lanphear, Customer Experience
Scott Dreyer, Customer Solutions
Linda Kozitzky, NBG

Strategy Development & Realization - reporting to David Esposito

Scott Summers, Strategy Development
Blaine Taylor, Merck Sigma

Operations – reporting to Jan Nissen

Robert Steere, IM&DS
Edward Peifer, Sales Force Administration
Robert Yoder, National Business Planning
Joe Kozlowski, Customer Fulfillment
Bruce Dore, COMET Implementation
 












I see now why the "New" has been dropped. Notice that the country is sliced into 4 neat pieces (regions) with the same number of DCOs etc. per region. Next we will have the manager level with a new name but the same ole function and the same number per area. The roll out of this nonsense is scheduled for completion in March and my prediction is that they will begin work on the next reorganization by Dec 09.
 




































Anonymous said:
fired - the west got desimated - buhrman, fired, schwarz, fired, morales, fired, duddy, fired, mckinney, fired, vaughn, fired, durwin, fired, did I miss anyone? oh yea, they bring in blackburn from the east to run phoenix, nice move.
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The only survivors in the west were Krahe, Strombom and Monk. Everyone else is out.
 






Anonymous said:
What happened to Paul Cruz? Is he still in place or did he get displaced? Not sure how vaccines fit into the NCM- didn't see him listed as a DCO.
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He is in the new MVID structure which is peds & OB. They are not under the 4 VPs nonsense. MVID is now those groups plus PSMs, AIMs and a few other areas that tablets do not get involved with.
There was no big shake up in the field for them, shake up is in WP.
Lucky them!!
 






























Anonymous said:
Let me enlighten you how corporate America works: it was either get fired or quit, so he said, "Hmmm, I think I'll retire." Either way Merck got what they wanted, he's out.
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not so quick on some of these retirees - some had a choice and didn't like the choices available - some had the opportunity to get a package to retire early and jumped on it - and some were as stated before about to get fired so they quit. It's not all bad for these guys and gals - I suspect the majority are hurtin' and would rather be with merck than retired or on the unemployment line.
 






Anonymous said:
not so quick on some of these retirees - some had a choice and didn't like the choices available - some had the opportunity to get a package to retire early and jumped on it - and some were as stated before about to get fired so they quit. It's not all bad for these guys and gals - I suspect the majority are hurtin' and would rather be with merck than retired or on the unemployment line.
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come on... anyone with 1/2 a brain was JUBILANT that they got bridged to retirement, are you kidding me, thats the best deal going. You get out of the toxic and sure to be even more so - work environment and you get a sweet deal on retirement. you would have to be some kind of sadist not to take that and thank your lucky star.
 


















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