Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2020
Pfizer CEO on the pressures of creating a COVID-19 vaccine: ‘what is at stake is beyond imagination'
30 September 2020 - Albert Bourla, 58, is chairman and chief executive of Pfizer, a multinational pharmaceutical company. Bourla is a doctor of veterinary medicine and began his career at Pfizer 27 years ago in his home country of Greece.
The pressure is as high as you can imagine. It’s not an easy thing when you feel the hopes of billions of people and millions of businesses and hundreds of governments invested in this industry — and you are the leading company in this industry, and it happens that you are the CEO. And also a new CEO. You feel that pressure on your shoulders. And you feel that you need to rise to the occasion. I had moments that I needed a glass of wine — let me put it that way.
