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As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PAREXEL, Josef von Rickenbach has created one of the world's largest pharmaceutical outsourcing companies. In Fiscal 2001, the company had annual revenues in excess of $387 million, operations in more than 43 countries, and approximately 4,700 employees worldwide. Since its inception in 1983, PAREXEL has grown to provide a broad range of expertise-based product development and marketing outsourcing services to the international pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Under Mr. von Rickenbach�s leadership, PAREXEL has expanded geographically and operationally through a number of acquisitions; conceived and established a highly complex, multi-disciplinary, systems-oriented and global approach to clinical research, biostatistics and data management operations.
Prior to founding PAREXEL, Mr. von Rickenbach was employed by ENSECO (formerly ERCO), as the Manager of European Operations. He began his career at Schering-Plough, Inc. in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Mr. von Rickenbach presents regularly at North American and European investor and industry conferences, and pharmaceutical and other professional industry meetings. He was awarded the Ernst & Young 1997 New England Region Entrepreneur of the Year.
Mr. von Rickenbach holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Lucerne College of Industrial Economics and Administration in Switzerland and received his Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.
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