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Actavis, Forest CEOs Team Up To Lead New Drug Giant

Brenton Saunders and Paul Bisaro have a lot of experience in making big pharma deals. Since he became CEO of generic drugmaker Watson Pharmaceuticals in 2007, Bisaro has built the company into a giant through its 2012 buyout of Actavis (ACT), whose name Watson adopted, and last year’s purchase of Warner Chilcott, which won the company a low-tax Irish address. Meanwhile, in 2010, Saunders was appointed CEO of Bausch & Lomb, which he sold to Valeant

VMware Executive Helps Company Expand Offerings

Sanjay Poonen likes to move fast. Since joining VMware as general manager of the company’s end-user computing group in August, Poonen has overseen a flurry of developments. He helped roll out a new version of the company’s desktop virtualization software and helped the company jump into the mobile management service market with an intent to buy AirWatch, a mobile management service company, in January for $1.54 billion. Poonen joined VMware (VMW),

Athenahealth Partner Program Follows Facebook Model

Health care IT company Athenahealth has always seen itself as a disruptor. The company was among the first to provide practice-management software to doctors entirely through the cloud, rather than with installed systems. And since 2011, it’s been running a project whose name is a demand: More Disruption Please. More Disruption Please is a kind of incubator, in which health IT startups pitch Athenahealth (ATHN) on why they offer a value-added