Former White House Coronavirus Task Force adviser Deborah Birx named CEO of pharmaceutical company,

[mountaineer]

Show of hands: who's surprised?

Former White House Coronavirus Task Force adviser Deborah Birx named CEO of pharmaceutical company, has been active in private sector since leaving government positions
Paul Sacca
July 22, 2023

Deborah Birx – the former White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator under former President Donald Trump – has been named as the CEO of a pharmaceutical company.

In a July 11 press release, Armata Pharmaceuticals announced that Birx, 67, would be the new chief executive officer of the biotechnology company. ...

Birx announced her retirement in December 2020 during an interview by saying, "I want the Biden administration to be successful. I've worked since 1980 in the federal government, first through the military, then through [the Department of Health and Human Services], and then detailed to the State Department and detailed here, where I hope I was helpful. I will be helpful in any role people think I can be helpful in, and then I will retire."

Birx left her position as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator in January 2021, according to a LinkedIn profile. ...

In March 2021, Birx became a senior fellow at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which said: "Deborah L. Birx, M.D., has spent her career serving the United States, first as an Army Colonel and later, running some of the most high-profile and influential programs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Department of State." ...

Full story at The Blaze

[jmyrlefuller]

You mean a private sector company actually hired her? Yeah, I'm kind of surprised.

I would have expected K Street or a university job.

[roamer_1]

[PeteS in CA]

You mean a private sector company actually hired her? Yeah, I'm kind of surprised.

I would have expected K Street or a university job.

Armata Pharmaceuticals seems to be in long-term start-up mode, seeking investor funding to fund R & D (= they do not have a product on the market or very far into FDA testing). Birx will probably function as a figurehead symbol to attract investment $$.

[Kamaji]

Armata Pharmaceuticals seems to be in long-term start-up mode, seeking investor funding to fund R & D (= they do not have a product on the market or very far into FDA testing). Birx will probably function as a figurehead symbol to attract investment $$.

They probably do the initial research and testing, and when they have a viable candidate, they probably sell it or spin it off into its own company.

[Wingnut]

As a longtine Federal employee, failure is often rewarded.

[Bigun]

As a longtine Federal employee, failure is often rewarded.

In the private sector you get promoted up to your level of incompetence. In the public sector you can never reach that level.

[Right_in_Virginia]

In the private sector you get promoted up to your level of incompetence. In the public sector you can never reach that level.

 

[mountaineer]

In the private sector you get promoted up to your level of incompetence. In the public sector you can never reach that level.

The more incompetent, the better. See also Jennifer Granholm, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, et al.

[Bigun]

The more incompetent, the better. See also Jennifer Granholm, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, et al.

The list of incompetents in government is a long one indeed! As the old saying goes;

"Those who can do, those who can't teach, and the rest run for office."