Sheri S. McCoy is worldwide chairman, Pharmaceuticals Group, since January 1, 2009. Ms. McCoy is also a member of Johnson & Johnson’s Executive Committee.

Ms. McCoy began her Johnson & Johnson career with Personal Products Company in 1982 as an associate scientist in research & development. She advanced through positions of increasing responsibility within the research & development organization. In April 1996, Ms. McCoy was named vice president, research & development, Personal Products Worldwide. She became vice president, marketing, for the skin care franchise within Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc., in January 2000. In June 2002, Ms. McCoy was promoted to global president for the baby and wound franchise within Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc., the position she held until being named as company group chairman and worldwide franchise chairman of Ethicon, Inc. in July, 2005. In her role as company group chairman, Ms. McCoy was also senior executive in charge of Johnson & Johnson medical devices and diagnostic products for Latin America and a member of the Medical Devices & Diagnostics Group Operating Committee. In 2008 Ms. McCoy was appointed worldwide chairman, Surgical Care Group, with responsibility for the surgical care franchises, including Ethicon, Inc., Ethicon Endo-Surgery, and DePuy, as well as the medical devices and diagnostics organizations in the Latin America, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia Pacific regions, and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. and Independence Technology, L.L.C. She was also a member of the Executive Committee.

Among her community and professional associations, Ms. McCoy serves as a board member of FIRST, a non-profit organization created to inspire young people's interest and participation in science and technology; a Board and Executive Committee member of PhRMA; board member of Institute of Medicine; board member of Stonehill College; board member of the National Quality Forum, and vice president of the Montgomery Township Education Foundation.

Ms. McCoy holds four U.S. patents.

Born in Quincy, MA, Ms. McCoy received a B.S. degree in textile chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She also holds a masters’ degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Rutgers University.

Ms. McCoy is married and the mother of three sons.

Jenny Allen is a writer and performer. Her profiles, essays and reviews have appeared for years in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vogue, Esquire, More, Huffington Post and Good Housekeeping. Recent essays appear in “Disquiet, Please!” a new anthology of humor pieces from the New Yorker, and in In The Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life After 50, to be published this April by Simon & Schuster. She is the author of a book of fables for grown-ups called The Long Chalkboard, illustrated by her husband, Jules Feiffer. She helped originate the ’80s comedy group Serious Bizness and has performed in productions of Jules’ Blues and in readings of Spalding Grey: Stories Left to Tell. She produces and performs stand-up comedy evenings in Manhattan. I Got Sick Then I Got Better was first performed on Martha’s Vineyard in the summer of 2007; since then James Lapine has been collaborating with Allen and with Darren Katz on shaping and expanding the material, under the aegis of New York Theatre Workshop, which produced the show in 2009. Ms. Allen is now performing it in theaters around the country. She has two children, Halley, an actress, and Julie, a ninth grader, as well as a stepdaughter, Kate.