Menu BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kenneth C. Frazier Chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Merck & Co., Inc. Director, Exxon Mobil and PhRMA. Member, Board of Overseers, Weill Cornell Medicine. Trustee, Cornerstone Christian Academy. Our director since Jan. 1, 2011. Leslie A. Brun Chairman and chief executive officer, Sarr Group, LLC (investment holding company). Non-executive chairman, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. and CDK Global, Inc. Director, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and NXT Capital, Inc. Our director since July 22, 2008. Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado. Director, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado. Our director since May 27, 2009. Pamela J. Craig Former chief financial officer, Accenture (global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company). Director, Akamai Technologies. Our director since Sept. 1, 2015. Thomas H. Glocer Retired chief executive officer, Thomson Reuters Corporation (information and services company for businesses and professionals). Founder and managing partner, Angelic Ventures, L.P. Director, Morgan Stanley. Member, Supervisory Board, Publicis Groupe. Our director since Nov. 27, 2007. Rochelle B. Lazarus Chairman emeritus and former chief executive officer, Ogilvy & Mather (advertising and marketing communication company). Director, Blackstone Group L.P. and General Electric. Our director since Oct. 26, 2004. John H. Noseworthy, M.D. President and Chief executive officer, Mayo Clinic, and Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science (non-profit organization committed to clinical practice, education and research). Our director since May 23, 2017. Carlos E. Represas Retired chairman, Nestlé Group Mexico (multinational food and beverage company). Director, Bombardier Inc., Swiss Re Group and Swiss Re American Holding Corporation. Non-executive chairman, Bombardier Latin America. Our director since Feb. 24, 2009. Paul B. Rothman, M.D. Dean of medical faculty and vice president for medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, and CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Our director since Sept. 1, 2015. Patricia F. Russo Chairman, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. Former chief executive officer and director, Alcatel-Lucent. Director, Arconic, Inc., General Motors Company and KKR Management LLC (managing partner KKR & Co., L.P.). Our director since Sept. 1, 1995. Craig B. Thompson, M.D. President and chief executive officer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Director, Charles River Laboratories. Our director since Jan. 2, 2008. Wendell P. Weeks Chairman, chief executive officer and president, Corning Incorporated (specialty glass company for the consumer electronics, telecommunications, emissions-control, and life sciences industries). Director, Corning Incorporated and Amazon.com, Inc. Our director since Feb. 24, 2004. Peter C. Wendell Managing director, Sierra Ventures (technology-oriented venture capital firm). Faculty, Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Senior advisor and director, WestBridge Crossover Fund, LLC. Our director since Sept. 23, 2003. Dates prior to the merger of Merck & Co., Inc. ("Merck") and Schering-Plough Corporation ("Schering-Plough") on November 3, 2009, reflect membership on the board of legacy Merck (Brun, Cech, Glocer, Lazarus, Represas, Weeks and Wendell) or legacy Schering-Plough (Kidder, Russo and Thompson), as the case may be. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DOCUMENTS Policies of the Board - a statement of Merck's corporate governance guidelines Certificate of Incorporation By-Laws BOARD COMMITTEE CHARTERS Audit Committee Governance Committee Compensation and Benefits Committee Research Committee COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS Board Committee Assignments SHAREHOLDER COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE BOARD Learn more CODE OF CONDUCT: OUR VALUES AND STANDARDS Our code of conduct reflects our corporate values and guides our day-to-day decision making. Learn more Copyright. © 2009-2017 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Forward-Looking Statement Privacy Terms of Use Site Map