Gilead Sciences Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update
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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On March 12, 2025, Gilead Sciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), announced that Sandra Patterson, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer and the Company’s principal accounting officer, has decided to leave the Company. The Company’s Board of Directors has appointed Diane E. Wilfong as the Company’s interim Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, and designated her as the interim principal accounting officer, effective immediately. Ms. Wilfong will serve on an interim basis while the Company undertakes a search for a successor.
Ms. Wilfong, age 63, previously served as the Company’s Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer from February 2016 to March 2023 and thereafter transitioned into a role as the Company’s Vice President, Finance Strategic Projects. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Wilfong was Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at Computer Sciences Corporation (now known as DXC Technology) from November 2014 to February 2016. Ms. Wilfong also served in similar roles at Caesars Entertainment Corporation and Eastman Kodak Company. Ms. Wilfong is a certified public accountant (inactive) and began her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ms. Wilfong received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. | |
| (Registrant) | |
| /s/ DEBORAH H. TELMAN | |
| Deborah H. Telman | |
| EVP, Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate | |
| Secretary |
Date: March 12, 2025