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Fred Hassan FRED HASSAN
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Schering-Plough Corporation
Kenilworth, New Jersey

Fred Hassan is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Schering-Plough Corporation.

Prior to joining Schering-Plough in April 2003 and assuming his current position, Hassan was chairman and chief executive officer of Pharmacia Corporation. He joined the former Pharmacia & Upjohn in May 1997 as chief executive officer and was elected to the Board of Directors. In February 2001, Hassan was named chairman of the Board of Pharmacia, the company created through the merger of the former Monsanto and Pharmacia & Upjohn companies.

Previously, Hassan was executive vice president of Wyeth, formerly known as American Home Products, with responsibility for its pharmaceutical and medical products business. He was elected to Wyeth's Board of Directors in 1995. Earlier in his career, Hassan spent 17 years with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis) and headed its U.S. pharmaceuticals business.

Hassan received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Hassan is the past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and is the immediate past chairman of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey. He is currently president of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of Avon Products, Inc.

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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Basic Facts and Figures
•  World Headquarters:
2000 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, N.J. 07033-0530
•  Chairman and CEO:
Fred Hassan
Number of employees:
55,000
Net sales (2007):
$12.7 billion
Business operations in more than:
140 countries
Largest-selling products:
VYTORIN*, ZETIA*, REMICADE, NASONEX.
R&D investment (2007):
$2.9 billion
Areas of research:
cardiovascular disease, central nervous system disorders, immunology and infectious disease, oncology, respiratory diseases and women's health

*VYTORIN and ZETIA are managed through a joint venture with Merck & Co., Inc. Schering-Plough accounts for the joint venture under the Equity method. Total cholesterol joint venture sales were $5.2 billion in 2007.
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