Fredric N. Eshelman, vice chairman and chief executive officer of PPD, Inc., has been named to the newly created position of executive chairman of the board of directors. Ernest Mario, Ph.D., who has served as the non-executive chairman of the board of PPD since 1993, has been appointed lead independent director. PPD also announced that Brigadier General David L. Grange (ret.), a member of PPD’s board of directors since 2003, has been named PPD’s new chief executive officer. General Grange will ...