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Levinson resigns as Roche director

September 5, 2014 1:54 AM UTC

Roche (SIX:ROG; OTCQX:RHHBY) said Arthur Levinson resigned as a director, effective immediately, to avoid conflicts of interest with his role as CEO of Calico LLC (San Francisco, Calif.). Calico was launched by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) last September to focus on health and well-being, including aging and associated diseases.

Levinson had been a Roche director since 2010. In June, he resigned from the board of Roche's Genentech Inc. unit, where he had served as chairman since 1999. ...