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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. |
| (d) | Election of New Director. |
On June 19, 2020, the Board of Directors of Perrigo Company plc (the “Company” or “Perrigo”) appointed Katherine C. Doyle to serve as a director of the Company and a member of its Audit Committee, to be effective July 29, 2020.
From 2016 to 2019, Ms. Doyle served as the Chief Executive Officer of Swanson Health Products, Inc., an e-commerce health and wellness self-care company. Prior to that, Ms. Doyle was an independent consultant to direct-to-consumer wellness businesses from 2014 to 2016. Ms. Doyle previously worked at Abbott Laboratories in various executive leadership roles from 2011 to 2014, including President of the Abbott Nutrition Product Division and, before that, Vice President and General Manager of Pediatric Nutrition. Prior to 2011, Ms. Doyle gained more than 20 years of experience at McKinsey & Company, Inc., including 10 years as Principal, working in the consumer packaged goods, consumer healthcare and retail sectors across Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. She currently serves as a director of AholdDelhaize, a global omnichannel grocery retailer, where she is the Chair of the Sustainability and Innovation Committee and serves on the Audit Committee. Previously, she served on the board of Bemis Company, Inc., a former publicly traded global packaging company, where she served on its Audit and Nomination and Governance Committees.
Murray S. Kessler, President and CEO of Perrigo, said: “We are delighted to welcome Katie to Perrigo’s Board of Directors and Audit Committee. Her impressive executive leadership experience, together with her consumer products background and experience with e-commerce and retail, will add significant value to Perrigo.”
There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Doyle and any other person pursuant to which she was selected as a director of the Company. For her service on the Board, Ms. Doyle will be entitled to receive compensation provided to non-employee directors as approved by the Board and described in the Company’s proxy statement filed on March 27, 2020.
SIGNATURE
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.
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| PERRIGO COMPANY PLC | ||||||
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/s/ Todd W. Kingma | |||||
| Dated: June 24, 2020 |
Todd W. Kingma | |||||
| Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | ||||||