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President and Chief Executive Officer

EMD Millipore offers chemicals for applications in laboratories and industry. Biosciences, biopharma, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals

President and CEO of Waters Corporation. Former, Chief Executive Officer of MilliporeSigma, the $7.7 Billion Life Science Tools business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and member of its Executive Board. Has Board responsibility for the company’s global Information Technology function and oversees the company’s Bioethics Advisory Panel. MilliporeSigma has led the market in organic sales growth and EBITDA margin for the last 5+ years fueled by innovation and operational excellence. Established reputation as a leader of transformations across the healthcare spectrum including pharma, consumer health and life science tools over ~25 year career in Healthcare. Took over a declining Pharma business of Novartis in Australia and New Zealand and led it to >35% organic sales growth in 2008. Turned around Merck KGaA’s consumer health business from one with flat sales growth and EBITDA~7% to the second fastest growing business in the industry at >5.5% organic sales growth and EBITDA~18% in ~2 years. After becoming CEO in 2014, developed and executed a growth strategy that included the 2015 acquisition of chemicals and technology giant Sigma-Aldrich. Architected and led this merger — the largest acquisition in the history of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and the largest to date in the life science industry. Represent the company with investors, analysts and media including annual presentations at banker conferences (JPM, UBS, ISI Evercore, etc). New Englander of the Year (2020). CPHI CEO of the year (2016), Pharmavoice top 100 influencer and leader (2017 - 2019), Business Person of the Year (NECA 2019), Boston Business Journal Power 50 (2019), MassBioed leader of the year (2018). Active in community and academia. Invited lecturer at the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard Business School, Babson College, University of Delaware, RPI, American Chemical Society. JFK library’s Naturalization Ceremony, Massachusetts School Superintendents annual meeting, TU Darmstadt.