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CARRIE S. COX
Executive Vice President and
President, Global Pharmaceuticals
Schering-Plough Corporation
Kenilworth, New Jersey
Carrie S. Cox is executive vice president and president, Global
Pharmaceuticals, for Schering-Plough Corporation.
Cox joined Schering-Plough in May 2003. Her appointment consolidated
Schering-Plough's prescription pharmaceutical business from several
autonomous units into a unified Global Pharmaceutical Business that
today includes global sales, marketing, advertising, product public
relations, business operations, medical affairs and commercial development.
Cox is responsible for leading the transformation of the Global Pharmaceutical
Business into a profitable, high-performing organization.
Prior to joining Schering-Plough, Cox was the executive vice president
and president of the Global Prescription Business at Pharmacia Corporation,
prior to its merger with Pfizer.
A registered pharmacist, Cox has more than 20 years of experience in
the pharmaceutical industry. She joined Pharmacia's predecessor company,
Pharmacia & Upjohn, in 1997 as senior vice president and head of Global
Business Management, and was a principal architect of that company's
dramatic turnaround. She was appointed executive vice president in 1999.
Previously, Cox served as vice president of Women's Health Care at Wyeth,
where she worked for seven years. Prior to that assignment, she held
a variety of positions in market research, sales and product management
during a 10-year career with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis).
Cox is a member of the Harvard School of Public Health's Health Policy
and Management Executive Council. She also serves as a member of the
Board of Directors of Texas Instruments and as a member of that board's
audit committee. Cox is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Fortune magazine named Cox to its list of the "50 Most Powerful
Women in Business" on four separate occasions, including three
consecutive years since 2005; and the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association
named her "Healthcare Businesswoman of the Year."
Cox is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
Schering-Plough is an innovation-driven, science-centered global health care company. Through its own biopharmaceutical research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough creates therapies that help save and improve lives around the world. The company applies its research-and-development platform to human prescription and consumer products as well as to animal health products. Schering-Plough's vision is to "Earn Trust, Every Day" with the doctors, patients, customers and other stakeholders served by its colleagues around the world. The company is based in Kenilworth, N.J., and its Web site is www.schering-plough.com.
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