Karen Linehan and Philippe Luscan, who have led Legal, Ethics & Business Integrity (LEBI) and Industrial Affairs at Sanofi for the last 14 and 13 years respectively have decided to retire. Karen will retire on December 31, 2021 and Philippe later in 2022. Sanofi has appointed Roy Papatheodorou and Brendan O’Callaghan as their respective replacements, joining the company’s Executive Committee. Additionally, Viviane Monges will join EUROAPI, a future leading European company dedicated to the development, production, and marketing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), as an independent non-executive Chair of the Supervisory Board. She will serve as Chair of the Board of Directors upon transformation of EUROAPI into a société anonyme, in compliance with applicable corporate governance regulations. Viviane Monges’ appointment is with immediate effect. A French national, Viviane’s career has spanned across several industries. She was CFO of the Business Excellence Division at Nestlé. Prior to that, she spent nearly two decades leading financial operations in three pharmaceutical companies. She served as Group CFO at Galderma S.A., a multinational dermatology company. She is currently an independent Director at several pharmaceutical companies: UCB, Novo Holdings, DBV Technologies, ADC Therapeutics, and Pharvaris. She also served on the Board of Idorsia from 2018 to 2021. Roy Papatheodorou, with dual Cypriot and Italian nationalities, will take over the role of Sanofi’s General Counsel and member of the Executive Committee on February 1, 2022. He will replace Karen Linehan who will be retiring from Sanofi at the end of 2021 after a long and successful career in the company. Brendan O’Callaghan, an Irish citizen, will become the new Global Head of Industrial Affairs and member of the Executive Committee as of October 1, and will take over from Philippe Luscan who will be retiring from Sanofi after 32 years of dedicated service to the company.
Sanofi is the largest European pharmaceutical group. Net sales by family of products break down as follows:
- pharmaceutical products (70.6%): prescription drugs in the areas of specialty medicine (59.3% of net sales; for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, neurological diseases, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, rare diseases, cancers and rare hematological diseases) and general medicine (40.7%; mainly for the treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases);
- human vaccines (17.4%): pediatric vaccines, vaccines for flu, meningitis, and polio, booster vaccines, and vaccines for travelers and endemic areas;
- consumer health products (12%).
At the end of 2023, the group had 54 production sites throughout the world.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (5.5%), Europe (18.6%), the United States (43%), North America (1.6%) and other (31.3%).