Joseph Jimenez is the former CEO of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis.

[2] Jimenez earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1982, and an MBA from Berkeley's Haas School of Business in 1984.

[4][5][6] Prior to joining Novartis, he was head of H. J. Heinz Company's North American business from 2002 to 2006.

[8] During his time at Novartis, Jimenez increasingly applied standard business metrics to pharma cash flow, purchasing and competitive bidding, confident that his experience in consumer goods would help to realize improvements in Novartis' operations.

His cost-cutting moves, focused mostly on marketing and administration, came steadily, with more than a billion cut in 2010, and even more than that in 2011.