Charles A. Rowland, Jr. was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer on December 6, 2006. Mr. Rowland has more than 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and CFO of Biovail Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. Before joining Biovail in 2004, he had served since 2001 as Chief Operating and Financial Officer for Breakaway Technologies, a management consulting company. His pharmaceutical industry career includes positions of increasing scope and responsibility at Pharmacia Corp., where he had global responsibility for Finance and Information Technology for the Pharmaceutical Business and financial responsibility for the Global Supply organization as Vice President, Finance Global Supply and VP Finance & IT- Global Pharma Ops; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., where he was VP, Planning and Decision Support, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he served as Director of Finance. Mr. Rowland began his career in 1980 at United Brands Inc. |