Management
To view the biographies click on the names of the directors below.
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Giovanni Recordati Chairman and Chief Executive Officer -
Giovanni Recordati holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano and a master's degree in management science from the Imperial College, University of London.
He joined Recordati in 1974. In 1980 he was named vice president for manufacturing and in 1984 he added responsibility for research & development and corporate operations. In 1990 he became president and chief operating officer. Since 1977 he has been a member of the Board of Directors. Presently he is chairman and chief executive officer of the Recordati group.
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Alberto Recordati Vice Chairman of the Board -
Alberto Recordati earned a degree in biochemistry from King's College of the University of London in 1977. In 1984 he earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School of the same university.
He joined Recordati in 1984 as researcher in the biochemistry and immunology lab. In 1987 he was in charge of the planning and product development unit. From 1990 to 1992 he worked at Pharmetrix Corp., a United States subsidiary, as research coordinator. In 1992 he was appointed industrial manager for biochemicals, in charge of biochemical/microbiological research and the biochemical/fermentation production. In 1995 he became general manager of the chemicals research and technologies division, and in 1999 President of the pharmaceutical chemicals division. In 2004 he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Board.
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Walter Bevilacqua Vice-President and Director
Corporate Development -
Walter Bevilacqua holds a Dr Ing degree in engineering from the Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. After a short academic experience he pursued a career in management in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry holding financial and marketing positions, including heading the pharmaceuticals division of Recordati (1981). He then joined Olivetti (1986), heading a US subsidiary and later a group of software and information services companies. He has been with Recordati again since 1996.
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Luciano Bonacorsi Vice-President and Director
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Luciano Bonacorsi earned a law degree from the Università degli Studi di Milano in 1981.
He began his career at S.I.P. (now Telecom Italia), where he was hired as assistant to the district human resources director in 1982. From 1987 to 1989 he was assistant to the labour relations director at Federchimica. In 1989 he moved to Esselunga as human resources manager, first regionally and then at headquarters. He joined Recordati in 1994, where he was put in charge of labour relations and plant human resources. After a brief hiatus as director of personnel and general affairs at Valeas Industria Farmaceutica, he returned to Recordati where he has been vice-president and director human resources since 1997.
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Celestino Di Rollo General Manager Pharmaceuticals Italy -
Celestino Di Rollo holds a degree in business science with a major in marketing from the Politecnico of Business Studies in Lugano.
He began his career in 1987 as medical representative in Simes, a Zambon Group company.
From 1999 to 2002 he hold positions with increasing responsibilities becoming sales manager in leading pharmaceutical companies.
He joined the Recordati Group in 2002 as the sales manager of the French subsidiary Laboratoires Bouchara Recordati. In 2007 he was appointed to the position of director of marketing and sales ethical products in Italy, subsequently became director of pharmaceutical operations Italy and in April 2009 General Manager Pharmaceuticals Italy.
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Duccio Favara Group Licensing Director -
Duccio Favara graduated in Industrial Chemistry at the Università degli Studi di Milano. In 1970 he joined as a medicinal chemist Gruppo Lepetit where he pursued a carer in R&D including a one-year stage at the New England Laboratories of the Dow Chemical Company in the United States. In 1982 he moved to Pierrel, an Italian pharmaceutical company, initially as a team leader, from 1986 as R&D Director for synthesis, analysis and pharmaceutical technology and from 1989 as licensing manager. He joined Recordati as senior licensing manager in 1993 and during 1997-2004 his activity was carried out at the Swiss affiliate of Recordati. Since 2008 he heads the licensing group at Recordati. -
Safuan Gritli Vice President Corporate Pharmaceutical Operations -
Safuan Gritli holds a degree in Medicine and began his international career exporting medical devices, followed by an experience in the chemical sector and shortly after became involved in the pharmaceutical business. He joined Chiesi Farmaceutici in 1988 where he held various sales and marketing positions, contributed to the international growth of the group, participated in a number of acquisition and international licensing activities, and conducted the start up of new subsidiaries and the development of the business in emerging markets. In 2001 he was appointed Director of International Market Development and held this position until he joined Recordati in 2008 as Vice President Corporate Pharmaceutical Operations with the assignment to develop the international and strategic marketing activities and to strengthen the business in new high growth pharmaceutical markets. -
Amedeo Leonardi Director Drug Discovery -
Amedeo Leonardi joined Recordati in 1968 as a chemist assigned to the laboratory of pharmaceutical chemical synthesis.
He subsequently obtained a degree in Pharmacy from the Università degli Studi di Milano and became head of chemical research for the group in 1983. In 1991 he became head of pharmaceutical research which comprised the chemical and pharmacological teams.
In 2008 he was appointed Director of Drug Discovery, following a reorganization of the R&D function, and assumed further scientific responsibility.
He had an active role in a number of NCE research projects resulting in molecules active for various pharmaceutical indications currently marketed by the group (fenticonazole and lercanidipine), as well as in those which did not reach the market.
He is author or co-author of 105 scientific papers, 80 posters or oral presentations, and around 50 patents. -
Diego Provvedini Director Drug Development -
Diego Provvedini obtained the Medical Degree in 1978 from the University of Parma, Italy, where he initiated his career as Clinical Research Assistant in the Dept. of Gerontology & Geriatrics. In order to pursue his scientific work on the endocrine control of bone metabolism, in 1982 he joined the Dept. of Medicine of the University of California in San Diego, where he held university positions in the research track. After having obtained several support grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), in 1987 he continued his scientific career as Senior Researcher in the Dept. of Immunology of the Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla. After moving to France in 1994, he joined the pharmaceutical industry, first as International Project Coordinator at the Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier, then in 1999 as International Project Leader at Negma Laboratoires, and in 2003 as Head of Development Strategy at Steba Biotech-France. In 2008 he was appointed Director of Drug Development at Recordati. -
Andrea Recordati Director Western European Subsidiaries -
Andrea Recordati holds a Bachelor of Arts in modern and medieval history from the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College of the University of London.
From September 1995 to March 1998 he took part in the Smithkline Beecham Management Access Program of in the United Kingdom becoming project manager in charge of the development and the implementation of an innovative marketing initiative.He joined Recordati in 1998 as project leader for a program directed at the improvement of field force productivity and marketing investments optimization.
Since 1998 he has been member of the Board of Directors.
In 1999 he became manager of pharmaceutical business development reporting to the general manager of the pharmaceutical division.
In March 2002 he was appointed head of the newly constituted lercanidipine business unit.
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Arnaldo Restelli Director Central and Eastern European Subsidiaries -
After obtaining a degree in medicine Arnaldo Restelli began his career in the pharmaceutical industry (Simes, Recordati, Lusofarmaco) holding positions with increasing responsibilities. In 2001 he joined Menarini as medical-marketing director of the international division with responsibility for the marketing and medical operations and field force coordination as well as the coordination of the subsidiaries in Switzerland, Greece and Portugal. In addition to the activities of the international department, for about one year, he was general manager of Menarini France, and afterwards of the Swiss subsidiary.
He returned to Recordati, where he has been appointed director of international marketing and Southern European subsidiaries, in 2007.
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Paolo Romagnoli Pharmaceutical Chemicals -
Paolo Romagnoli holds a degree in chemistry from the Università degli Studi di Milano.
He joined the Recordati Group in 1974 where he held positions of increasing responsibility within the pharmaceutical chemicals division beginning with the development of processes of organic syntheses and achieving the position of head of pharmaceutical chemicals marketing.
In 1988 he began his activity as a consultant specialised in pharmaceutical chemicals. He dealt with many European and North American companies accruing a profound management experience : from strategic planning to business development, from market research to research and development.
He joined the Angelini Group in 2003 as the manager of the fine chemicals business unit and production facilities.
In 2006 he returned to International consulting offering extensive support to many companies in the fine chemicals sector and in particular as related to active pharmaceutical ingredients.
In May 2008 he rejoins Recordati as director of pharmaceutical chemicals.
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Roland Rutschmann Vice President and Director for the Special Care and Orphan Drugs -
Roland Rutschmann, born in Switzerland, has a Degree in Biochemistry with a Ph.D. in Immunology and an international experience of more than 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry. After the marketing and sales experiences in Roche and Schering Plough, in 1998 he joined Warner Lambert where he was Marketing Planning Manager for Central Eastern Europe and then Director for Sales & Marketing in Switzerland. In 2000 Dr. Rutschmann moved on to Actelion, a leading European biotechnology company, where he covered different positions with growing responsibilities: he was head of Strategic Marketing Europe & General Manager Austria & Switzerland, then he became General Manager Switzerland, Austria & EEMEA, till he was appointed Vice President Emerging Markets & Geographical Expansion. In 2009 he joined Recordati as Vice President and Director for the Special Care and Orphan Drugs business and was also appointed General Manager of Orphan Europe. -
Fritz Squindo Chief Financial Officer. General Manager for the Coordination of Group Operations -
Fritz Squindo earned a degree in business administration from Bocconi University in Milan. He began his career at Telettra, a telecommunications company in the Fiat Group, where he worked in treasury management. He then gained experience at the Italian branch of the French pharmaceutical group Sanofi, where he was first head of finance and later head of the management accounting department. He joined Recordati with that title in 1992, and in 1995 was appointed Chief Financial Officer. In 2008 he was also appointed General Manager for the Coordination of Group Operations.
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Franco Tomasini Vice-President and Director
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Franco Tomasini earned a management degree from Bocconi University in Milan in 1975, and an MBA from Ottawa University (Canada) in 1984.
From 1976 to 1981 he held various positions in the sales and marketing department at the Venezuelan affiliate of Oscar Mayer. He began his career at Recordati in 1984, where he was hired as assistant to the chairman and chief executive officer. He then became controller of the foreign subsidiaries, chief financial officer of the U.S. affiliates, and vice president and director of purchasing and logistics at the parent company. For two years he served as chief executive officer of Fimei, the holding company of the Recordati Group. Since 1999 he has been the Recordati group' s vice-president and director of purchasing and logistics.
