Lonza Group Ltd Announces Appointment of Fridtjof Helemann as Member of the Executive Committee for Human Resources, Communications and Environment, Health and Safety, Effective 1 February 2017
January 25, 2017 at 02:05 am
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Lonza Group Ltd’s Board of Directors announced the appointment of Fridtjof Helemann, Chief Human Resources Officer
(CHRO) for the company, as a member of the Executive Committee (EC), responsible for Human Resources, Communications and Environment, Health and Safety, effective 1 February 2017. Fridtjof Helemann joined Lonza in June 2016 as CHRO. He has 30 years of experience as an HR executive leader in different industries and was Managing Partner at Oxford Leadership prior to joining the company. His previous roles include CEO and Partner of Mercer Inc. Central Europe, Corporate Vice President HR Henkel AG and various roles in HR consulting
including Partner Hay Group and MD Kienbaum.
Lonza Group AG is one of the world leaders of the development, production and marketing of chemical products. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- bio-pharmaceuticals (55.4%): exclusive syntheses, microbiological fermentation products , mammalian cell cultures, etc.;
- capsules and dosing solutions for biopharmaceuticals, drugs and nutrition products (17.3%). In addition, the group offers nutritional ingredients;
- small molecule drug substances (13.4%);
- technologies and platforms for manufacturing processes and production of cell and gene therapies (10.4%);
- other (3.5%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Switzerland (17.4%), Europe (31.7%), the United States (31.8%), the Americas (3.2%), Japan (8.1%), Asia (7.5%) and other (0.3%).
Lonza Group Ltd Announces Appointment of Fridtjof Helemann as Member of the Executive Committee for Human Resources, Communications and Environment, Health and Safety, Effective 1 February 2017
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