Update On The Post Merck Career Of Former CIO J. Chris Scalet

About 15 months ago, we wrote on the "retirement" (from Merck) of J. Chris Scalet. He had apparently retired as a Section 16 officer and Merck executive committee member in July of 2012, but no formal public announcement was made until December of that year -- via an SEC filing.

A court decision was made public, in the online court newspapers, the very same day as the event which Merck disclosed to the SEC was the regulatory event -- that triggered the start of the SEC Section 16 reporting duties -- of his successor, incoming CIO Clark Golestani.

In any event, Mr. Scalet has kept himself quite busy in retirement.

The graphic at right lists his current seat, as CEO of HMA LLC, two board seats and one former board seat -- at a company since acquired by IBM. He was also, prior to his time at Merck, an IT executive at International Paper and MAPCO. From today's Winshuttle appointment presser, then:

. . . .Scalet has served as CIO at three public companies including Merck, a $44 billion pharmaceutical company, International Paper, a $28 billon paper and packaging company, and MAPCO, a Fortune 250 diversified energy company. He developed one of the first shared services organizations at Merck when he centralized technology infrastructure, yielding a nine-figure savings per year in the process. Scalet currently serves on the board of Intralinks (IL), a SaaS solutions provider of secure content and collaboration services, and was a past board member at Netezza Corporation, a leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, prior to their acquisition by IBM. . . .

So now you know -- what has become of Mr. Scalet, the former CIO of Merck. Thus far, anyway. . . and Happy St. Padraich's -- to one and all!