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Italian-British businessman (–)

Sir Paul GirolamiFREconS FIMC (25 January – 17 March ) was an Italian-British businessman, who was chairman and chief executive of Glaxo; he made Glaxo into a worldwide success.

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Early life and career

Girolami was born in Italy on 25 January ^[1] He attended the London School of Economics.

Girolami joined Glaxo in as a Financial Controller. He became finance director in when aged In April it was announced that he would become chief executive.

In the early s, Glaxo briefly surpassed British Telecom to become Britain's most valued company on the stock market (LSE), and Glaxo was the world's second-largest pharmaceutical company and remained so into the s; it had been 25th largest in the world in The reasons for this were a huge increase in its R&D budget, and employing many more researchers; by it was spending $ million on research with around 5, researchers, of which 3, were in the UK.

Its other researchers were i