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.
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