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Marianne Späne (1962) joined the Siegfried Group in 2004 and was responsible for the Classical Generics Business Unit between 2004 and 2008. She headed the Siegfried Generics Division form 2008 and 2010 and was appointed as Global Head of Business Development and Sales, Marketing, Business Intelligence and Regulatory Affairs as well as Member of the Executive Committee in March 2010. Today she is acting as CBO (Chief Business Officer) and proud to have participated and contributed nearly 20 years to the growth story of Siegfried turning from a 300 Mio CHF Turnover to a > 1bn CDMO, with a variety of services from development to manufacturing of drug products and drug substances with 11 sites worldwide.

Prior to joining Siegfried, she worked in logistics, business development and as site manager for Boucheron (today Gucci), a cosmetics company. Later she switched to the pharmaceutical industry and joined the pharma division of Schweizerhall as head of the sales marketing department. Subsequently she joined Aceto, a US based company, where she developed European expansion strategies.

Marianne Späne holds Master degrees in finance, business administration and marketing
Being in leading positions of the industry for more than 25 years, she has been establishing a very good network in the eastern and western hemisphere (China, Europe and US) and displays a profound understanding and extensive knowledge of the chemical and pharmaceutical market along the whole value chain. In her position she is responsible for the global turnover and profitability, growth of the global portfolio by innovative business models and technology expansion, identification and acquisition of new targets for the chemical and pharmaceutical segments for all the sites, establishment of global business cases and Lifecycle management strategies for the portfolio, Establishment of Customer Relationship Management systems, market strategies, Business intelligence systems, and global regulatory affairs.

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