Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced results of the voting at its 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. At the meeting, shareholders re-elected director nominees Matthew W. Emmens and Wayne J. Riley, M.D. and elected nominee Margaret C. McGlynn to the company’s board of directors. Their terms will expire at the 2014 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Ms. McGlynn most recently served as President, Global Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, for Merck & Co., Inc. In her nearly three decades at Merck, Ms. McGlynn held a number of leadership roles focused on marketing, sales and managed care activities for Merck’s portfolio of medicines. She is a member of the National Industrial Advisory Committee at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and holds a B.S. in Pharmacy and an M.B.A. in Marketing from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The addition of Ms. McGlynn brings the number of Vertex board members to eight.
