Roche Chi­na CEO preps for a move to Mer­ck KGaA while US Mer­ck adds to C-suite; Suc­ces­sion plan fi­nal­ized for EVPs re­tir­ing from Sanofi

→ Be­gin­ning Oct. 1, Roche Chi­na CEO Hong Chow will be head of Chi­na & in­ter­na­tion­al for Mer­ck KGaA’s health­care busi­ness, a po­si­tion that al­so en­com­pass­es Japan, Eu­rope, Latin Amer­i­ca, Asia-Pa­cif­ic, the Mid­dle East, Africa and Rus­sia. The mul­ti-pronged po­si­tion al­so has Chow lead­ing the car­dio­vas­cu­lar me­tab­o­lism & en­docrinol­o­gy fran­chise and the Glob­al Busi­ness In­no­va­tion (GBI) unit. A Bay­er alum, Chow has helmed Roche Chi­na since 2015.

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