Effective June 1, 2010 Per-Olof Attinger, currently Head Group Communications and Member of the Enlarged Corporate Executive Committee, will take over the position as Head CEO Office and Secretary to the Corporate Executive Committee reporting to Severin Schwan. This position has been newly created following the organizational changes of the Corporate Executive Committee at the beginning of this year.
Effective August 1, 2010 Stephan Feldhaus will be appointed Head Group Communications and Member of the Enlarged Corporate Executive Committee, reporting to Severin Schwan. Stephan Feldhaus holds a PhD in theology from the University of Munich and has more than 15 years of experience in communications. Stephan Feldhaus joins Roche from Siemens AG in Germany, where he held various communication functions in sector and corporate headquarters. Most recently he was Head of Communications for the Siemens Healthcare Sector, a position he held since 2006. In parallel, Stephan Feldhaus was Site Head for the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region since 2009.
Until Stephan Feldhaus takes over his new position, Per-Olof Attinger will continue to lead Group Communications.
About Roche
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, virology, inflammation, metabolism and CNS. Roche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics, tissue-based cancer diagnostics and a pioneer in diabetes management. Roche’s personalised healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostic tools that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients. In 2009, Roche had over 80’000 employees worldwide and invested almost 10 billion Swiss francs in R&D. The Group posted sales of 49.1 billion Swiss francs. Genentech, United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche has a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan. For more information: www.roche.com.
