Steve Rivera is currently a Worldwide Senior Director of Financial Compliance and Procedures Group. Steve joined Johnson & Johnson in April 2005. His responsibilities include ensuring worldwide accounting compliance of business transactions that J&J enters into in the areas of R&D collaborations, business combinations and similar types of investments. He works extensively with the Corporate and Affiliate Groups that are involved in these transactions. His work also includes providing guidance in technical accounting areas, accounting policy and interfacing with our external accountants on the accounting of business transactions that cross over all the three major business segments at J&J – Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices & Diagnostic and Consumers segments.