Kendle dips into Ann Arbor's talent pool for 26 new hires

Thursday, January 29, 2009 | Source: Concentrate

Kendle knows talent when it sees it. That's why the international corporation set up shop in Ann Arbor after Pfizer closed its Tree Town campus.

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The storyline is familiar now: Pfizer closes its Ann Arbor campus, new jobless pharma techies take a leap of faith and create their own start-up. The tale that isn't told is how Pfizer's closing attracted other companies to set up Ann Arbor offices.

Cincinatti-based Kendle is just one of those companies. It didn’t have an Ann Arbor office before the pharma giant's closure but it did soon after.

"A lot of talented people were leaving Pfizer and we wanted to hire those that wanted to stay in the Ann Arbor area," says Mel Kropko, director of global clinical development for North America for Kendle.

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