Who is Dave Ricks and what is his role at Eli Lilly today?
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Chair & CEO at Eli Lilly and Company
Niche: Pharmaceuticals, AI, Health & Wellness
Revenue: $1M+/month
Location: USA
Started: 2015 or
I chair and run Eli Lilly, steering a 150-year-old drug maker toward the next diseases. My job is choosing where to aim research, how much risk to take, and balancing investors with patients waiting for treatments. Right now that means guiding the GLP-1 surge and rebuilding our science with large-scale computing.
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