Drug man­u­fac­tur­ing gi­ant Lon­za taps Roche/phar­ma ‘rein­ven­tion’ vet as its new CEO

Lon­za chair­man Al­bert Baehny took his time head­hunt­ing a new CEO for the com­pa­ny, mak­ing it ab­solute­ly clear he want­ed a Big Phar­ma or biotech CEO with a good long track record in the busi­ness for the top spot. In the end, he went with the gold stan­dard, turn­ing to Roche’s ranks to re­cruit Pierre-Alain Ruffieux for the job.

Ruffieux, a mem­ber of the phar­ma lead­er­ship team at Roche, spent close to 5 years at the com­pa­ny. But like a small army of man­u­fac­tur­ing ex­ecs, he gained much of his ex­pe­ri­ence at the oth­er Big Phar­ma in Basel, re­main­ing at No­var­tis for 12 years be­fore ex­pand­ing his hori­zons.

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