Big pharma was not always Deb Mangone's world. At one time, she was betting on building her career on the back of an ill-fated dotcom era VC-funded startup, called Kozmo. It was only when that came crashing down that Pfizer appeared on her radar. 'The dotcom went out of business and I was unemployed, living in Manhattan and needed a job,' she recalls. A trained engineer just two years out of college, she was looking at opportunities in a range of sectors when Pfizer came calling. 'My dad, who worked at IBM his entire career, said to me: ‘Deb, you know, [in] a company like Pfizer, you can have a ton of different careers.

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