Biography

Richard Francis has been a director since May 2016. He serves on the Compensation Committee. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Manchester Metropolitan University. He is Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., since January 2023.  He is a Director of Purespring Therapeutics, a kidney focused AAV gene therapy company, since January 2023.

From February 2021 until December 2022, Mr. Francis was Chief Executive Officer of Purespring Therapeutics. From 2014 until March 2019, Mr. Francis was Division Head and Chief Executive Officer of Sandoz, the Generics Division of Novartis, and was a member of the Executive Committee of Novartis. Prior to that, Mr. Francis spent 13 years at Biogen Idec, where he held various global and country leadership positions. Immediately prior to leaving Biogen in 2014, Mr. Francis was Senior Vice President of their US commercial organization. From 1998 to 2001, he held various marketing roles at Sanofi.

Mr. Francis has in-depth knowledge of the generics, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industry sectors, which are important market segments for the company. He also has significant leadership and international expertise that provides useful insights to our global organization.