CINCINNATI, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Procter & Gamble Company today announced the following organizational changes:
Gil is an outstanding innovation leader,” said A.G. Lafley, P&G chairman of the board and chief executive officer. “He transformed P&G’s innovation while preserving the essential part of P&G’s R&D organization - world-class technologists who are masters of core technologies critical to P&G’s businesses - but he was also willing to transform our innovation capabilities. As a result of Gil’s leadership, there’s a broader, more-productive, more-open and more consistently successful innovation culture at P&G today.”
On Mr. Brown’s appointment, Mr. Lafley said: “Bruce Brown has 28 years experience leading winning innovation across a number our businesses - including Baby Care, Feminine Care, and Beauty Care - and in several geographic markets, including North America, Western Europe and Asia. I’ve worked with him for more than 15 years, beginning with our time together in Asia, and he’s been a key leader of P&G’s work to innovate how we innovate. He will continue to strengthen P&G’s innovation capability and culture as chief technology officer.”
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