Achievement is exemplary of what makes Merck Merck Kenneth Frazier, one of just a few black executives leading a Fortune 500 company, is stepping down from the top job at Merck, the drug maker said Thursday.

成績是默克公司的典範肯尼思-弗雷澤（Kenneth Frazier）是少數上司財富500強公司的黑人高管之一，該製藥商周四表示，他將從默克公司的最高職位上辭職。

Frazier won't retire as CEO at the end of June, but will remain as executive chairman.

弗雷澤不會在6月底退休，但會繼續擔任執行董事長。

Fraser made headlines in 2017 when he became the first business leader to quit President Donald Trump's manufacturing council in an apparent protest over Trump's tepid reaction to violence.

弗雷澤在2017年成為頭條新聞，他成為第一位退出唐納德-特朗普總統制造業委員會的商界領袖，顯然是為了抗議特朗普對暴力事件的乏力反應。

At a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

在弗吉尼亞州夏洛茨維爾的白人民族主義集會上。

The grandson of a sharecropper, Fraser join Merc Nearly 30 years ago, he ascended to the CEO post in 2011.

作為佃農的孫子，Fraser在近30年前加入了Merc，並在2011年登上了CEO的位置。

Under his leadership, the company developed the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda, and it's now one of the leading products in a new generation off oncology treatments.

在他的上司下，公司開發出了暢銷的癌症藥物Keytruda，現在是新一代腫瘤治療的領先產品之一。

Shares of the company have more than doubled during his reign, replacing Frazier Chief Financial Officer Robert Davis.

在他執政期間，該公司的股價增長了一倍多，取代了弗雷澤首席財務官羅伯特-戴維斯。

He was a president of Baxter International's medical products business before joining Merck in 2014.

在2014年加入默克之前，他曾擔任百特國際醫療產品業務總裁。

The announcement came with the release of quarterly results on a post earnings conference call.

在財報電話會議後發佈季度業績時，宣佈了這一消息。

Davis said of the man he will be replacing quote his shoes won't be easy to fill in so many ways, both within Merck but also including his many principled and valuable contributions to important issues facing society today.

戴維斯說，他將取代報價他的鞋子將不容易填補在許多方面，無論是在默克內部，還是包括他對當今社會面臨的重要問題的許多原則性和寶貴的貢獻。

Shares of Merck declined in early trading Thursday.

默克公司股價在週四早盤下跌。