Article: Takeda Pharmaceuticals Unit Chooses Ex-Abbott Marketer.

Byline: Bruce Japsen

Aug. 30--Mark Booth, a pharmaceutical marketing executive for 18 years, was named Thursday to head fast-growing Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America Inc., the Lincolnshire-based U.S. subsidiary of Japan's largest drugmaker.

The 43-year-old Booth, who joined Takeda Pharmaceuticals as executive vice president in October, will replace Saburo Hamanaka, who will return to the company's Japan-based parent, Takeda Chemical Industries of Osaka.

In his new role, Booth will head a company that has turned its first drug, the diabetes treatment Actos, into a blockbuster projected to generate more than $1 billion in U.S. sales this ...

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