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Executive Leadership Team

Ian C. Read

Ian C. Read Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Ian C. Read

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Ian C. Read leads Pfizer, one of the world’s premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, which brings therapies to patients that significantly improve their lives. These include medicines, vaccines and many of the world’s best-known consumer health care products.

Prior to being named Chairman of the Board in 2011, and Chief Executive Officer in December 2010, he was President and Chief Executive Officer from December 2010 until December 2011. Previously he served as Senior Vice President and Group President of the Worldwide Biopharmaceutical Businesses, which he led from 2006 through December 2010. In that role, he oversaw five global business units - Primary Care, Specialty Care, Oncology, Established Products and Emerging Markets. Read began his career with Pfizer in 1978 as an operational auditor. He worked in Latin America through 1995, holding positions including Chief Financial Officer, Pfizer Mexico, and Country Manager, Pfizer Brazil. In 1996, he was appointed President of Pfizer’s International Pharmaceuticals Group, with responsibility for Latin America and Canada. He became Executive Vice President, Europe, in 2000, was named a Corporate Vice President in 2001, and assumed responsibility for Canada, in addition to Europe, in 2002. Read later became accountable for operations in both the Africa/Middle East region and Latin America as well.

Read is a Director of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. He also serves on the Boards of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and the Partnership of New York City.

Read received his B.Sc. in chemical engineering from London University Imperial College in 1974 and earned his Chartered Accountants certification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Albert Bourla, DVM, Ph.D.

Albert Bourla, DVM, Ph.D. Chief Operating Officer

Albert Bourla, DVM, Ph.D.

Chief Operating Officer

Albert Bourla is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Pfizer, one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies. As COO, Albert oversees the company's commercial, strategy, manufacturing and global product development functions. He is a member of the Company's Executive Leadership Team.

Prior to being named COO, Albert was the Group President of Pfizer Innovative Health, responsible for the Consumer Healthcare, Inflammation & Immunology, Internal Medicine, Oncology, Rare Disease and Vaccines business groups. He also created the Patient and Health Impact group, which was dedicated to developing solutions for increasing patient access, demonstrating the value of our innovations, and ensuring broader business model innovation.

Bourla has almost 25 years of experience with Pfizer and has held a number of senior global positions across a range of markets and disciplines. Previously, Bourla was the Group President of Pfizer’s Global Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare Business, where he was instrumental in building a strong and competitive position in Oncology and expanded the company's leadership in Vaccines. Before that, he was President and General Manager of Pfizer’s Established Products Business, where he led the development and implementation of strategies and tactics related to Pfizer’s off-patent portfolio, including legacy brands and generics.

Bourla joined Pfizer’s Animal Health Division in 1993 as Technical Director of Greece. He held positions of increasing responsibility across Europe before moving to Pfizer Global Headquarters in New York in 2001 to assume the role of U.S. Group Marketing Director for Animal Health. In 2004, he became Vice President of Business Development and New Products Marketing; supervising Pfizer Animal Health global licensing and acquisition activities, as well as the unit’s R&D portfolio. In 2006, he was appointed Area President of Europe, Africa and Middle East and in 2009, he assumed additional responsibilities for Asia and Pacific.

Bourla is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and holds a Ph.D. in the Biotechnology of Reproduction from the Veterinary School of Aristotle University. He is a member of the following boards: the Pfizer Foundation, which promotes access to quality health care and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (Bio), the world's largest biotechnology trade association, where he serves on the Executive Committee.

Frank D'Amelio

Frank D'Amelio Executive Vice President, Business Operations and Chief Financial Officer

Frank D'Amelio

Executive Vice President, Business Operations and Chief Financial Officer

Frank D’Amelio is the Executive Vice President, Business Operations and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Pfizer, responsible for finance, business development and business operations, including IT, procurement and real estate. D’Amelio led the acquisition and integration of Medivation, Inc., Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc., Hospira Inc., King Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Wyeth, as well as the split-off of Pfizer’s animal health business, Zoetis, and the sale of its nutrition business to Nestlé and its Capsugel business to KKR.

Before joining the company in September 2007, D’Amelio was Senior Executive Vice President of Integration and Chief Administrative Officer of Alcatel-Lucent, responsible for the integration of the Alcatel-Lucent merger as well as procurement, real estate, IT and supply chain.

Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies in 2006, D’Amelio was the Chief Operating Officer of Lucent Technologies. In 2001, he was appointed Executive Vice President and CFO of Lucent, where he helped lead the company through one of the most challenging periods in the telecom industry’s history and returned the company to profitability.

When Lucent was spun off from AT&T in 1996, D’Amelio helped create the new company financially as the CFO of Lucent’s Network Systems Business and was a critical member of the team that met with investors around the world during Lucent’s initial public offering. In 1999, he was appointed the Group President of Lucent’s Switching Solutions Business Unit, where he led Lucent’s multibillion-dollar, global Switching, Access and Application Software businesses.

Born and raised in New Jersey, D’Amelio earned his MBA in Finance from St. John’s University and his B.A. in Accounting from St. Peter’s College. He started his career in 1979 at Bell Labs, holding a variety of financial, accounting and general management positions, and moved within AT&T, holding a series of positions with increasing responsibility.

In 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017, D’Amelio was ranked among America’s top CFOs by Institutional Investor magazine. In 2002, he was recognized by Treasury & Risk magazine as one of America’s Top CFOs.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Zoetis, Inc. and Humana, Inc. and is chair of the Humana Audit Committee; and the Independent College Fund of New Jersey.

Mikael Dolsten, M.D., Ph.D.

Mikael Dolsten, M.D., Ph.D. President, Worldwide Research & Development and Executive Vice President of Pfizer

Mikael Dolsten, M.D., Ph.D.

President, Worldwide Research & Development and Executive Vice President of Pfizer

Mikael Dolsten is focused on advancing the company’s scientific leadership in small molecule medicines, biotherapeutics and vaccines. He is a member of the Pfizer Executive Leadership Team and the company’s Portfolio Strategy and Investment Committee, which governs major pipeline investments and strategic end-to-end R&D priorities. He leads the Worldwide Research and Development (WRD) organization at Pfizer, which is responsible for research at the company, including development of all compounds through proof of concept, and provides safety, regulatory and clinical operation support to the entire R&D pipeline.

The WRD group contains all Pfizer research units, including Oncology, Internal Medicine, Inflammation & Immunology, Vaccines, Rare Disease, as well as the Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI). Dolsten, also, has worldwide responsibility for Pfizer’s groups in safety, regulatory and external R&D innovation, in addition to science-based teams in pharmaceutical sciences, drug safety R&D, and large and small molecule discovery and development. Prior to joining Pfizer in 2009, Dolsten was President of Wyeth Research, where he led scientists across the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Dolsten earned his Ph.D. in tumor immunology and M.D. from the University of Lund in Sweden, where he was appointed Adjunct Professor in Tumor Immunology. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dolsten serves on the Science and Regulatory Executive Committee of The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the PhRMA Foundation Board of Directors. He is a member of the Board of Karyopharm Pharmaceuticals and an industry member of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) Council. In addition, Dolsten was recently elected as Foreign Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Dolsten is a named inventor on several patents and has published approximately 150 articles in international journals, with particular contributions in areas such as molecular cell biology, immunology and oncology.

Chuck Hill

Chuck Hill Executive Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources

Chuck Hill

Executive Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources

As Chief Human Resources Officer, Chuck Hill is responsible for all enterprise human resource strategies with a key focus on driving the company’s OWNIT! culture.

Hill joined Pfizer’s human resources team in 1987, supporting the Pharmaceutical Sales Force. Since then, he has held a number of roles including HR director of Pfizer’s Global Manufacturing facility in Groton, Connecticut; Vice President HR, Corporate Finance; and Senior Vice President HR, Worldwide Biopharmaceuticals Businesses.

Prior to joining Pfizer, Hill served for eight years in the United States Air Force as an instructor fighter pilot and flight commander. He is the executive sponsor of the Pfizer Colleague Council, Veterans in Pfizer, which works to maximize the unique role veterans and active military personnel play in driving workplace and marketplace outcomes.

Hill holds a B.A. in Business from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California.

 Angela Hwang

Angela Hwang Group President, Pfizer Essential Health

Angela Hwang

Group President, Pfizer Essential Health

Angela Hwang is the Group President of Pfizer Essential Health. In this role, Ms. Hwang leads a global organization that operates in 160 countries, with a portfolio of more than 600 products that generates approximately $21 billion in revenue annually. Pfizer Essential Health is a leader in non-viral Anti-Infectives, Biosimilars, off-patent Sterile Injectables, and the Emerging Markets. Its Global Brands portfolio includes many of Pfizer's most iconic brands, including Lipitor, Viagra, and Norvasc. Pfizer Essential Health's growth is driven through its dedicated R&D organization, and a focus on the acquisition of new molecules developed outside of Pfizer. PEH's portfolio of well-known branded medicines, innovative delivery mechanisms, and high-quality manufacturing make it a key partner in the global health space.

In her prior role, Hwang was Global President of Pfizer Inflammation & Immunology, a multi-functional global, regional, and country-based organization focused on developing, launching, and driving revenue for products in rheumatology, gastroenterology and dermatology.

Hwang joined Pfizer in 1997 and has held 10 different positions in the company spanning strategy, product development, marketing, sales, and general management. Her experience covers a wide array of therapeutic areas and medicines in all stages of their lifecycle, including CV/Metabolic, CNS/Pain, Urology/Women's Health, Vaccines, and Inflammation and Immunology, as well as geographical breadth in both developed and emerging markets.

Hwangs's influence and impact are known throughout Pfizer and the industry. In her role as Regional President for US Vaccines (2014 – 2015), she activated the market for adult pneumococcal vaccines, driving a record number of adults vaccinated within the first year of the full commercialization of Prevnar 13. In her role as Vice President and Head of Primary Care for Emerging Markets (2011-2013), she fueled a portfolio of launch and mature products to growth through market and access development and targeted customer strategies. As Vice President US Established Products (2009 – 2011), she pioneered Lipitor's post-loss of exclusivity strategy, maximizing value for Pfizer's most iconic brand through a plan that continued to generate patient loyalty and value to Pfizer for years. She has also been an active participant in industry groups such as BIO, where she co-chaired the Vaccines Policy Committee for two years.

A native of South Africa, Hwang received her B.Sc. in Microbiology and Biochemistry from the University of Cape Town and her MBA from Cornell University.

 Rady Johnson

Rady Johnson Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance and Risk Officer

Rady Johnson

Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance and Risk Officer

Rady Johnson has overall responsibility for Pfizer’s corporate compliance programs and reports to the Chief Executive Officer. He has been with Pfizer since 1994 and has served in a number of leadership positions, including Associate General Counsel for the Specialty Care Business Unit and as head of the Global Product and Regulatory Law practice group.

Prior to joining the company, Johnson was a member of Hogan & Hartson, LLP’s food and drug law practice group based in Washington D.C., and also worked as a certified public accountant (CPA) and senior auditor for Arthur Anderson & Co.

Johnson was graduated from the University of Richmond and Georgetown University Law Center.

 Doug Lankler

Doug Lankler Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Doug Lankler

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Doug Lankler joined Pfizer in 1999 and currently serves as General Counsel. Prior to being named General Counsel, he was Pfizer's Chief Compliance and Risk Officer, a role he assumed in 2006.

Prior to joining the company, Lankler was with the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Lankler was a recipient of the United States Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award.

Lankler graduated from the State University of New York at Albany and Cornell Law School.

Freda C. Lewis-Hall, M.D., DFAPA

Freda C. Lewis-Hall, M.D., DFAPA Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer

Freda C. Lewis-Hall, M.D., DFAPA

Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer

Freda Lewis-Hall serves as Pfizer’s Chief Medical Officer and leads Pfizer Medical, the division responsible for the safe, effective and appropriate use of Pfizer medicines and vaccines around the world. Besides providing science-grounded medical information to prescribers and patients, Pfizer Medical is also responsible for the company’s office of patient affairs, its centers of excellence on pediatric care, clinical trial diversity and healthy aging, its enterprise benefit-risk communications and its worldwide compassionate access program.

Before joining Pfizer in 2009, Lewis-Hall held senior leadership positions in medical affairs and product development with Vertex, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pharmacia and Eli Lilly and Company. Prior to joining the biopharmaceutical industry, she served as Vice Chairperson and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Howard University College of Medicine and was an advisor to the National Institute of Mental Health. Lewis-Hall graduated from Johns Hopkins University and earned her medical doctorate at Howard University College of Medicine. She launched her medical career as a practicing physician and then focused her academic research on the effects of health care disparities and the impact of mental illness on families and communities.

Lewis-Hall is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She is a frequent speaker on issues such as improving patient safety and outcomes and reducing stigma and healthcare disparities. She appears regularly on health-related television programs in major global markets, including CBS-syndicated shows such as The Doctors and Dr. Phil. She also shares health and medical information through GetHealthyStayHealthy.com.

Lewis-Hall was the inaugural Chair of NIH’s Cures Acceleration Network Review Board. Dr. Lewis-Hall currently serves on the boards of SpringWorks Therapeutics, Save the Children, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard Medical School and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She is a director of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a member of the Advisory Council for the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Science.

Kirsten Lund-Jurgensen, Ph.D.

Kirsten Lund-Jurgensen, Ph.D. Executive Vice President and President, Pfizer Global Supply (PGS)

Kirsten Lund-Jurgensen, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President and President, Pfizer Global Supply (PGS)

Kirsten Lund-Jurgensen's pharmaceutical industry career spans 30 years. As President of PGS, she is responsible for Pfizer’s internal and external manufacturing and supply network. She has held roles of increasing global responsibility throughout her career including site leadership, global strategic planning, contractor management, supply chain management and product portfolio leadership. Lund-Jurgensen joined the company in 1999 from SmithKline Beecham where she held various global operational and leadership roles in Australia, Germany and the United States. She has been a member of the PGS Leadership Team since 2000 and has represented PGS on several of Pfizer’s Business Leadership Teams.

In addition to her daily responsibilities, Lund-Jurgensen is a Board Member of the Pfizer Foundation, and is the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) sponsor for Pfizer's Environmental Sustainability program and the Latino Colleague Resource Group. She also is a Member of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers Board of Directors.

Lund-Jurgensen is a pharmacist from Kiel University in Germany and holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Biology from Freiburg University in Germany.

Rod MacKenzie, Ph.D.

Rod MacKenzie, Ph.D. Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer

Rod MacKenzie, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer

Rod MacKenzie, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer. In this role, MacKenzie is responsible for the development and advancement of Pfizer’s pipeline of medicines in several therapeutic areas, including inflammation and immunology, internal medicine, oncology and rare disease. He serves on the Portfolio Strategy and Investment Committee, which focuses on maximizing the return on R&D investment across the Pfizer portfolio, and is a member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team.

MacKenzie joined Pfizer in Sandwich, UK as a Research Scientist and conducted medicinal chemistry research in the cardiovascular, GI, Sexual Health, Urology and Allergy & Respiratory diseases. He is the co-inventor of darifenacin (Enablex™).

MacKenzie has held numerous leadership positions at Pfizer, including Head of PharmaTherapeutics Research and Development where he oversaw the Cardiovascular & Metabolic Diseases, Pain & Sensory Disorders and Neuroscience Research Units and was responsible for all medicinal chemistry at Pfizer, as well as Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics & Metabolism and Comparative Medicine. He also served as Site Director of the Groton, Connecticut laboratories, Pfizer’s largest global R&D facility. Prior to this role, MacKenzie held a series of research leadership positions, including Senior Vice President and Head of Worldwide Research, Head of Discovery Chemistry in Sandwich, U.K., Head of the Discovery Technology Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Head of Discovery Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Head of Drug Safety R&D.

MacKenzie represents Pfizer on the Board of Directors for ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist HIV company established by GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer to deliver advances in treatment and care for people living with HIV. He also represents Pfizer on the Board of Directors for TransCelerate, a non-profit organization with a mission to collaborate across the biopharmaceutical research and development community to improve the health of people around the world by accelerating and enhancing the research and development of innovative new therapies.

MacKenzie was graduated from the University of Glasgow with a 1st Class Honors degree in chemistry and completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College, London. He was awarded a NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and spent two years at Columbia University, New York working in the area of molecular recognition with Professor W.C. Still.

Laurie J. Olson

Laurie J. Olson Executive Vice President, Strategy, Portfolio and Commercial Operations

Laurie J. Olson

Executive Vice President, Strategy, Portfolio and Commercial Operations

Laurie Olson is Executive Vice President of Strategy & Commercial Operations at Pfizer. She is responsible for overseeing the shaping of Pfizer’s longer-term strategy, supporting the execution for Pfizer’s commercial objectives, and providing portfolio advisory functions to guide R&D investment decisions. Olson is a member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team and also a member of the Portfolio Strategy Investment Committee, which oversees decisions regarding enterprise portfolio investment and advancement.

Olson joined Pfizer in 1987 as an analyst in the company’s Marketing Research organization. She has since held both U.S. and global leadership roles in marketing, commercial development, strategy, analytics and operations. In her most recent role as Senior Vice President, Portfolio Management and Analytics, she served on an executive task force that successfully redesigned Pfizer’s R&D organization to strengthen its pipeline and improve efficiency. In 2011, Corporate Strategy was added to her responsibilities.

In addition to her daily responsibilities, Olson is the executive sponsor of Pfizer’s global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Colleague Council and serves on the company’s worldwide Diversity Leadership Council.

Olson earned a B.Sc. degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an MBA in Marketing from Hofstra University.

 Sally Susman

Sally Susman Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs

Sally Susman

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs

Sally Susman is Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs for Pfizer. She chairs Pfizer’s Political Action Committee and is Vice Chair of the Pfizer Foundation.

Susman directs Pfizer’s global communications and its public affairs activities, including high-level relations with the governments of all nations in which the Company has operations or markets products. She also heads the firm’s Corporate Responsibility group and plays a key role in shaping the Company’s policy initiatives. Before joining Pfizer in 2007, Susman held roles at Estee Lauder Companies and the American Express Company. Earlier in her career, she spent eight years in government service focused on international trade issues.

Susman serves on the following boards: WPP plc, a world leader in advertising and marketing based in the U.K., and The International Rescue Committee. Susman holds a B.A. in Government from Connecticut College; she has also studied at the London School of Economics.

 John Young

John Young Group President, Pfizer Innovative Health

John Young

Group President, Pfizer Innovative Health

John Young is the Group President of Pfizer Innovative Health at Pfizer Inc., one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies. He is a member of the Company's Executive Leadership Team.

Pfizer Innovative Health includes six business groups: Consumer Healthcare, Inflammation & Immunology, Internal Medicine, Oncology, Rare Disease and Vaccines. Each business group is committed to improving health with our innovative products from prevention to treatment to wellness – at every stage of life in communities across the globe. The Emerging Markets group is focused on increasing access to Pfizer's innovative portfolio of medicines to people across developing countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Most recently, Young was the Group President for Pfizer Essential Health where he oversaw a broad portfolio of more than 600 products with a global reach in 160 countries. Young has more than 25 years' experience with Pfizer and has held a number of senior global positions across the organization.

A scientist by training, he began his Pfizer career in the U.K. as a trainee Sales Representative and held various positions in sales and marketing before taking the role of Australia Country Manager, and later U.K. Country Manager. Following these experiences, he assumed the role of Regional President, Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand for the Primary Care Business Unit. He was later appointed President and General Manager of the Primary Care Business, where he led both the commercial organization and clinical development of medicines in key disease areas including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and pain.

Young is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Johnson Controls International. He is also a member of the Boards of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations (EFPIA) and the Ministerial Industry Strategy Group (MISG), since 2008.

Young holds a B.Sc. in Biological Science from Glasgow University and an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School.