Change of management in the Healthcare Division

Lead­ing sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny Mer­ck today announced that Hong Chow will join the Health­care busi­ness sec­tor as Head of Chi­na & Inter­na­tion­al, effec­tive Octo­ber 1. In this role, she will be respon­si­ble for the com­pa­ny’s busi­ness­es in Chi­na, in Japan, in the Europe, Latin Amer­i­ca, Asia-Pacif­ic, Mid­dle East, Africa and Rus­sia regions, as well as for the Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Dis­eases, Meta­bol­ic Dis­or­ders & Endocrinol­o­gy busi­ness unit and the Glob­al Busi­ness Inno­va­tion team. Chow will report to Peter Guenter, Mem­ber of the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee and CEO Health­care, and will serve on the Health­care Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, the lead­er­ship body of the Health­care busi­ness unit. She will per­form her new role from her work loca­tion in Shang­hai, China.

“With her inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence and strong track record in bring­ing inno­v­a­tive med­i­cines to patients in need of treat­ment in both devel­oped and emerg­ing mar­kets, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Chi­na, Hong Chow will help dri­ve our com­pa­ny’s strate­gic pri­or­i­ties. I am very much look­ing for­ward to work­ing with her on our team and her con­tri­bu­tion to achiev­ing our patient and health­care per­for­mance goals.”

- Peter Guenter, Mem­ber of the Exec­u­tive Committee

Chow is a Ger­man cit­i­zen and cur­rent­ly CEO of Roche Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals in Chi­na. She is also a mem­ber of the Super­vi­so­ry Board of Beiers­dorf AG. Pri­or to join­ing Roche, Chow held var­i­ous lead­er­ship posi­tions at Bay­er Health­care in Chi­na as well as Asia Pacif­ic and Europe. She holds a degree in busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion from both the Berlin School of Eco­nom­ics and Law and Anglia Ruskin Uni­ver­si­ty in Cam­bridge, Unit­ed Kingdom.

“What excites me about Mer­ck is its 353-year tra­di­tion of sci­en­tif­ic research, entre­pre­neur­ial spir­it and sus­tained com­mit­ment to human progress,” Chow said. “I am very excit­ed about my new role at Mer­ck and look for­ward to work­ing with the team to pro­vide vital med­i­cines that make a crit­i­cal dif­fer­ence for mil­lions of patients every day.”