Senior Leadership Team
Heather Bresch
Executive Vice President
Chief Operating Officer
Mylan
Heather Bresch is Mylan's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,
responsible for the Company's global commercial and technical operations,
strategic planning, business development and international affairs. She also
oversees the integration of Mylan's recent acquisition of Merck Generics.
Throughout her 16-year career with Mylan, Bresch has held various positions of
increasing responsibility. Most recently, she served as Mylan's Head of North
American Operations and Chief Integration Officer. As Head of North American
Operations, Bresch was responsible for Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Mylan
Technologies and UDL Laboratories. In her role as Chief Integration Officer,
she managed the successful integration of Matrix Laboratories, in which Mylan
took a controlling stake in January of 2007, and has been leading the
integration team working with Merck Generics, which Mylan acquired in October
2007. Prior to these positions, she served as Senior Vice President of
Strategic Development in the Office of the CEO.
In addition to her responsibilities within Mylan, Bresch has served two
consecutive terms as Chairman of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association and one
term as its Vice Chairman. She has been actively involved in critical industry
issues, including the passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, a
Congressional revision to the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984, which helped to ensure
consumer access to affordable pharmaceuticals.
Bresch received an undergraduate degree from West Virginia University.
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