Roche hires new di­ag­nos­tics chief from with­in, ahead of C-suite shake-up

More than two months af­ter Sev­erin Schwan an­nounced he’s leav­ing Roche and hand­ing the reins to di­ag­nos­tics chief Thomas Schi­neck­er, the phar­ma gi­ant has re­vealed who’s tak­ing Schi­neck­er’s place.

Matt Sause, who cur­rent­ly leads Roche’s North Amer­i­can di­ag­nos­tics busi­ness, is pop­ping the cork on the big glob­al pro­mo­tion to take ef­fect on Jan. 1. The 20-year Roche vet­er­an has served a hand­ful of roles across the com­pa­ny’s di­ag­nos­tics and phar­ma units, in­clud­ing a stint at Genen­tech where he was life­cy­cle leader for block­buster Tecen­triq’s head and neck can­cer pro­grams.

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