Bernadette Connaughton Appointed to Syneos Health Board of Directors
November 12 2019 - 4:30PM
Syneos Health® (Nasdaq:SYNH), a leading biopharmaceutical solutions
organization combining a Contract Research Organization (CRO) and a
Contract Commercial Organization (CCO), today announced the
appointment of Bernadette Connaughton to the Company’s Board of
Directors.
“We are pleased to welcome Bernadette, a biopharmaceutical
launch and commercialization expert, to the Syneos Health Board,”
said John Dineen, Chairman of the Syneos Health Board. “Her
three-decade career in global strategic and leadership roles within
large pharma will provide rich insights into the evolving needs of
our customers. Her experience transforming operational models
within these companies is especially valuable as we deliver our
unique end-to-end model – an improved way of working across the
clinical and commercial continuum – to biopharmaceutical companies
worldwide.”
Connaughton will serve as a Class III director. With
Connaughton’s appointment, the Company’s Board has been expanded
from 10 to 11 directors, 10 of whom are independent.
Connaughton spent her career at Bristol-Myers Squibb, building a
consistent track record of improving operational models, achieving
sales growth and improving profitability. She most recently served
as President Intercontinental, including China, Latin America,
Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In this role, she
developed successful, multi-year commercialization strategies for a
number of oncology, virology and immunology products.
Connaughton currently serves on the Board of Directors of
Zealand Pharma A/S (Nasdaq:ZEAL) and Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc.
(Nasdaq:HALO). She was previously a member of the Board of
Directors of Visterra, Inc. From 2014 to 2016, she served on the
Patient Access and European Markets Committees of the European
Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations. She
received her Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University and her
Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania.
About Syneos Health
Syneos Health® (Nasdaq:SYNH) is the only fully integrated
biopharmaceutical solutions organization. The Company, including a
Contract Research Organization (CRO) and Contract Commercial
Organization (CCO), is purpose-built to accelerate customer
performance to address modern market realities. Created through the
merger of two industry leading companies – INC Research and
inVentiv Health – Syneos Health brings together approximately
24,000 clinical and commercial minds with the ability to support
customers in more than 110 countries. The Company shares insights,
uses the latest technologies and applies advanced business
practices to speed its customers’ delivery of important therapies
to patients. To learn more about how Syneos Health is shortening
the distance from lab to life® visit syneoshealth.com.
Investor Relations Contact:
Ronnie SpeightSenior Vice President, Investor RelationsPhone: +1
919 745 2745Email:
Investor.Relations@syneoshealth.com
Press/Media Contact:
Danielle DeForgeExecutive Director, External
CommunicationsPhone: +1 202 210 5992Email:
danielle.deforge@syneoshealth.com
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