LabCorp CEO’s compensation climbs 7% to $11.6M
David King’s total compensation for fiscal year 2017 came to $11.6 million, up from $10.8 million the previous year, according to a securities filing.
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Tech on Tap: Live from LaunchBio! 1 on 1 with LabCorp CEO Dave King
TechWire editor Rick Smith sits down with LabCorp CEO David King to talk about where LabCorp is, where it is going and how King is focusing the company’s efforts to build a more patient-focused company.
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A night of innovation: Finding talent, ‘why NC?’, LabCorp CEO, startup pitches drive life science event
A night of innovation, from changes at international giant LabCorp to why North Carolina continues to attract new companies and pitches from three startups looking to impact the fight against disease, draws a big crowd to The Chesterfield in Durham. Here’s a recap.
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Videos: Complete coverage of WRAL TechWire Live-LaunchBio event
For those who couldn’t attend the biotech live event from LaunchBio and WRAL TechWire in Durham, WRAL.com provides plenty of videos from the event. Tune in and see what you missed.
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LabCorp’s David King talks about life in executive suite, ego, future, gardening – and unfinished business
LabCorp CEO and Chairman David King talks about his rise to the top of the life science giant’s executive suite, striving to keep his ego under control, challenges of the job, the unfinished business of the company, and the commitment to its hometown. Oh, there’s also the debate about how to pronounce the company’s name.
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Meet CEO David King, the practical strategist who’s driving LabCorp’s ‘tremendous run’
In January LabCorp was named to Fortune magazine’s list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.” Last year it was named to Forbes’ ranking of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies.” The Burlington-based company continues to grow in size and reputation. And driving LabCorp ever higher is David King, its chair and CEO, who talks about the “tremendous run” of the life science giant under his direction.
Read MoreLabCorp CEO: meeting healthcare challenges requires innovation
LabCorp, which began in a basement in 1969, “Is living proof of home grown innovation,” David King, CEO and chair of the Burlington-based company told the NC CEO Forum Healthcare Summit earlier this week. The healthcare challenges in the state and the nation are likely to require continuing innovation, he said.
Read MoreTechWire Live event ‘State of Biotech’ features 4 top execs discussing NC’s future as life science hub
LabCorp’s David King, venture capitalist Eric Linsley, BlueBird Bio COO Susanna High and LaunchBio CEO Joan Siefert Rose headline the lineup for the first WRAL TechWire Live event of 2018: The State of Biotech.
Read MoreLabCorp, Lenovo, IBM, GSK, Cisco earn perfect scores for LGBTQ equality
Five tech and life science corporations either based in or operating major campuses across North Carolina earn perfect scores for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality and inclusion in the new Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. Our state – rubbed raw and divided by the controversial-and-repealed “bathroom bill” AKA HB2 – also has several other firms on the list, ranging from law to finance. But since WRAL TechWire’s focus is technology and life science, here are the firms that achieved 100 scores based on a wide range of anti-discriminatory standards: GlaxoSmithKline LabCorp Lenovo IBM Bayer, which has...
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