BD Elects Jeffrey Henderson to Board of Directors

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Aug 16, 2018, 06:59 ET

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Aug. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that Jeffrey W. Henderson has been elected to the company's board of directors.

Henderson, 53, is the non-executive chairman of the board of Qualcomm, Inc. and serves on the board of directors at FibroGen, Inc. and Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. as well as serving as an advisory director to Berkshire Partners LLC. Prior to these roles, he served for nearly 10 years as chief financial officer of Cardinal Health, a $137 billion global health care services and products company, and also oversaw the company's China and Canada operations. Prior to Cardinal Health, Henderson spent seven years at Eli Lilly & Co. where he was vice president and corporate controller, as well as president and general manager of its Canada operations. He also spent 10 years at General Motors Corp. holding a variety of leadership roles in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore.

"Jeff has deep health care experience that will be of great value to BD as we continue to drive our strategy to provide innovative solutions to improve both the treatment of disease for patients and the process of care for health care providers across all regions of the world," said Vincent A. Forlenza, chairman and CEO of BD. "His financial, operational and international leadership at large, multinational companies brings highly complementary expertise to BD and our board of directors."

Henderson received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Kettering University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

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