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Pfizer names new board member

Pfizer has appointed Stephen Sanger to its board of directors, effective February 1, 2009.

Mr Sanger served as the chairman of General Mills from 1995 until his retirement in 2008. He joined General Mills in 1974 and held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility in marketing management across the company’s consumer food businesses.

Mr Sanger was elected to General Mills’s board of directors in 1992, named president of General Mills in 1993, and served as the CEO from 1995 until 2007. He began his career at Procter & Gamble in 1970.

Mr Sanger is currently a director of Target Corporation and Wells Fargo & Company, and a member of the board of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition, he is a member of the Business Council and the US Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.