Paul Gama

Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Procter & Gamble

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

Paul Gama became Chief Executive Officer of Procter & Gamble’s Health Care business in 2026, responsible for its Personal Health Care and Oral Care businesses, including Vicks, Crest, Oral-B, Metamucil, Pepto-Bismol, Fixodent and Neurobion. P&G says the business makes up 14 percent of its net sales. Gama joined P&G in February 2017 as senior vice president for North America Personal Health Care and became president of Personal Health Care in 2020. Before P&G he spent more than two decades in consumer health and household products at Reckitt Benckiser, Novartis and Bayer, starting as a pharmaceutical sales representative in Canada. He joined P&G after more than two decades at other consumer health and household products companies.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer, Health Care, at P&G since 2026.
• President, Personal Health Care, 2020 to 2026.
• Senior Vice President, North America Personal Health Care, from 2017.
• Global Category Director, Nutritionals, at Reckitt Benckiser, and marketing roles at Novartis and Bayer.
• Former chairman of the board of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association.

Professional Journey

Gama earned a BA in economics from McMaster University and an MBA in marketing from the University of Rochester, according to P&G. He began as a sales representative for Sanofi Pharma in Canada in 1991, was a marketing intern at Reckitt Benckiser in 1997 and an assistant brand manager at Bayer Consumer Health from 1998.

He returned to Reckitt Benckiser as brand manager for fabric care in 2002, then moved to Novartis, where he was group product manager and director of marketing for upper respiratory products and, from 2008, head of marketing for Mexico. Back at Reckitt Benckiser he was marketing director for health care from 2009 and global category director for nutritionals from 2013.

He joined P&G on 28 February 2017 as senior vice president for North America Personal Health Care, and in 2020 became president of Personal Health Care. In 2026 he was named chief executive of Health Care, combining Personal Health Care and Oral Care, the year the 10-K records him as first elected an officer.

He is on the board of directors of the Global Self-Care Federation and is a former chairman of the board of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, according to his company biography. Procter & Gamble, based in Cincinnati, reported net sales of $87.0 billion for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2026, according to its 10-K.

P&G describes the Health Care business as including Vicks, Crest and Oral-B along with Metamucil, Pepto-Bismol, Fixodent and Neurobion, and says consumer health, with retail sales of more than $375 billion, is among the largest industries in which it competes.

Education

University of Rochester

MBA, Marketing

McMaster University

BA, Economics