[5] When he was 12, his family moved to Fremont, Michigan,[1] where his father, a Korean War veteran, took a job as a marketing executive for Gerber Foods.

[1] In high school, Gorsky was captain of the varsity football team, assuming positions as quarterback and linebacker.

[6] In the same year, Congressman Guy Vander Jagt nominated Gorsky to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point.

[7] In May 1982, when Gorsky graduated from West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree, he joined the Artillery Branch of the U.S Army.

[1] He held various management and leadership roles at Janssen before becoming Company Group Chairman overseeing Europe, Middle East, and Africa in 2003.

[9] Gorsky joined the Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in 2004 as chief operating officer and head of General Medicines.

[12][13] Gorsky oversaw the company's legal defense against talc class action suits and opioid lawsuits.

[15] "As the world's largest health care company, we are bringing to bear our best scientific minds, and rigorous standards of safety, in collaboration with regulators, to accelerate the fight against this pandemic," Gorsky said in New Jersey Business magazine in 2020.

Gorsky attributed the strong multilayered immune response from J&J's vaccine to its innovative adenovirus-vector platform, AdVac, which it has developed over a decade.

Gorsky is a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center's CEO Council on Health and Innovation and of The Wharton Leadership Advisory Board.