Marie-Laure Pochon elected as Lundbeck's new EVP of Commercial Operations

Lundbeck's Executive Management Group reduced from six to four members

09-Sep-2011 - Denmark

H. Lundbeck A/S announced the appointment of Marie-Laure Pochon as new Executive Vice President, Commercial Operations, as of today. Marie-Laure Pochon is an ESPCI graduate, holds an MBA from HEC Paris and is Chief Executive of Lundbeck France and Regional Vice President for France, Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy, Turkey & Germany at Lundbeck.

Marie-Laure has delivered great results since joining Lundbeck in 2007. She has realized high growth and improved the profitability of our very important French affiliate. She has furthermore successfully led the Western Europe and Turkey region.

Lundbeck will in the coming months execute on many new opportunities to ensure successful implementation of Lundbeck's strategy and secure long-term growth. To further strengthen the execution of Lundbeck's strategy, it has been decided to reduce Lundbeck's Executive Management from six to four members.

R&D activities will be concentrated under the leadership of Anders Gersel Pedersen, EVP, Research & Development, in line with the integrated approach of Lundbeck's R&D Strategy. Peter Høngaard Andersen will leave Executive Management, but continue as part of Lundbeck's corporate management team as SVP, External Scientific Relations & Patents, where he will provide focused leadership of the expansion of external public and private research partnerships and collaborations.

Lars Bang will leave Executive Management, but continue to play an important role in Lundbeck's corporate management team as SVP, Supply Operations & Engineering, leading Lundbeck's global supply chain.

Lundbeck's Executive Management Group now consists of