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Board of Directors

The current Board of Directors, appointed by the Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on 29th April 2022, is composed of twelve members. The Board of Directors stays in charge until the Annual General Meeting for the approval of the Financial Statements as at 31st December 2024. The professional CV of each director is listed below:

Andrea
Recordati


Chairman

Guido
Guidi


Vice Chairman

Robert
Koremans


Chief Executive Officer

Michaela
Castelli


Lead Independent Director

Elisa
Corghi


Independent
Director

Giorgio
De Palma




Luigi
La Corte

Chief Financial
Officer

Joanna
Le Couilliard


Independent
Director

Giampiero Mazza




Piergiorgio
Peluso


Independent
Director

Cathrin
Petty




Kim
Stratton




The Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure Reports may be consulted for further information on the Board of Directors and, in particular, on the following: the procedures for appointing and replacing the board: its role and functioning; the executive officers and bodies: the independent directors.

Guidelines regarding the maximum number of offices

On 6th May 2021, upon the proposal of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee, the Board of Directors defined the following general guidelines regarding the maximum number of offices as directors or statutory auditors in other listed companies or significantly-sized companies that can be considered compatible with an effective performance of the role of Director of Recordati S.p.A

Policy on qualitative and quantitative criteria for the purposes of assessing independence requirements:

On 28th October 2021 the Board of Directors of Recordati S.p.A. defined the following policy on qualitative and quantitative criteria for the purposes of assessing independence requirements, pursuant to recommendation 7, first period, points (c) and (d), in article 2 of the Corporate Governance Code:

Board of Statutory Auditors
Committees

Andrea Recordati

Chairman

Andrea Recordati gained a Bachelor of Arts in medieval and modern history from the University of London Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Between September 1995 and March 1998, he participated in the SmithKline Beecham Management Access Program, in the United Kingdom, starting off as Assistant Product Manager in Consumer Healthcare and then, for one year, occupying the role of medical representative in Essex before becoming Project Manager responsible for the development and implementation of an innovative SmithKline Beecham marketing initiative. He joined Recordati in 1998 as Project Leader for a project aimed at improving Sales Force productivity and better use of marketing investments. In April 1998, he joined the Board of Directors of the Company. In 1999, he was given responsibility for Pharmaceutical Business Development.


In March 2002, the Lercanidipine Business Unit was set up and he was appointed head of that unit. Since November 2002, he has been responsible for setting up the subsidiary Recordati Ireland and its industrial plant and, subsequently, for setting up the UK subsidiary. In September 2006, he was appointed Sole Director of the German subsidiary Recordati Pharma GmbH. In August 2007, the Northern and Central Europe Subsidiaries Division was set up and he was appointed head of that division. That division was enlarged in 2010 to include all western European companies. In February 2011 he was appointed General Manager of the International Pharmaceuticals Division. In July 2013 he was appointed Chief Operating Officer, being responsible for all the commercial and production activities of the Group and sitting on several boards of directors within the Group. From 16th August 2016 to 5th February 2019, he was appointed as Vice Chairman and from 16th August 2016 to 1st December 2021 he was appointed as CEO of Recordati S.p.A.


Currently he holds the office of Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Guido Guidi

Vice Chairman

Born on 27 March 1953, he graduated in medicine, cum laude, in 1979 at the University of Milan, with a specialization, at the same university, first in immunology and allergology, achieved in 1984, and then in rheumatology, achieved in 1989.

 

Medical doctor since 1980, he was Medical Advisor first in Smith Kline & French Italia from 1981 to 1982 and then, from 1983 to 1985 in Roussel UCLAF Italia, then Medical Director from 1986 to 1989 in Sharper Italia (Roussel UCLAF Group).

 

In Sandoz Italy since 1990, until 1991 as head of the immunology and transplantation area and from 1992 to 2000 as head of the Specialty Products unit.

 

Since 2000 he has been in charge of the Southern Europe oncology unit at Novartis and from 2002 to 2012 he was head of the Head of Oncology, Europe at the Milan office where he led the marketing of several oncology products and played a key role in several partnership operations as a Novartis Deal Committee member. From December 2012 to February 2017, at the Swiss headquarters in Basel, he was appointed Head of Pharma, Europe, where he leads the marketing of several key products, coordinates operations and supervises a staff of over 7,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, including Russia and Israel.

 

Meanwhile he attended business courses in Lausanne in 2000 and from 2003 to 2015 in Boston (USA) at Harvard University.

Throughout his career, he has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novartis Italy, Novartis Spain, Novartis Nordics and Novartis UK, he was a member of the Novartis Pharma Executive Committee (PEC), and Chairman of the Novartis European Executive Committee (EEC), as well as a member of the Novartis Portfolio Management Board, R&D Oncology and Pharma and the EFPIA Executive Committee. He was awarded the Novartis CEO Excellence Award in 2006 and the Novartis CEO Talent Development Award in 2008.

 

Currently senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group and he holds the positions of:

  • founder and chairman of the board of directors of AuroraTT S.r.l.;
  • member of the board of directors of Aurora Science S.r.l.;
  • member of the board of directors of Philogen S.p.A. (listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange);
  • member of the board of directors of Genenta Science S.r.l. (Nasdaq listed company);
  • member of the board of directors and SAB member of Zambon S.p.A.;
  • SAB member and consultant of Italfarmaco S.p.A.;
  • vice President of the board of directors of Recordati S.p.A. (listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange);
  • Executive Chairman of Cellestia Biotech AG.

Robert Koremans

Chief Executive Officer

Robert Koremans qualified as a medical doctor from RSM Erasmus University in the Netherlands and has over 30 years’ experience in managerial and executive roles, gained mainly in the pharmaceutical industry at various international companies, including Serono, Grünenthal, Sanofi-Aventis and Teva.

 

He has worked globally and lived in the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. In 2018, he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in Nutreco, a global leader in animal nutrition. Previously, he had been President and CEO of Global Specialty Medicines and a member of the Executive Committee at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. From 1st December 2021, he is Chief Executive Officer of Recordati S.p.A..

Michaela Castelli

Independent Director & Lead Independent Director

Born in Rome on 7 September 1970; after the degree in Law and a specialization course in financial law, her working experience started in London in Capital Market area and then she worked with major legal firms in Italy, dealing with corporate and financial markets law. She worked for Borsa Italiana S.p.A. for 9 years, where she dealt with primary market and assisting, listed issuers on matters concerning extraordinary operations, price sensitive information, compliance and corporate governance. Registered in Milan Bar Association, she gained a significant experience as a member of the Boards of Directors and Supervisory Bodies of major listed and unlisted companies. Author of sector publications and lecturer on various continuous education courses on corporate and financial marketslaw; she participated in numerous conferences as a speaker.

Current relevant positions:

  • Chairman of Nexi S.p.A. (listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange);
  • Member of the Board of Directors of Recordati S.p.A. (listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange);
  • Member of the Board of Director of Fiera Milano S.p.A. (listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange);
  • Member of the Board of Director of Fiber JVCO S.p.A. (significantly-sized company).

Elisa Corghi

Independent Director

Born in Mantova on 11 August 1972, Elisa Corghi graduated in Business Administration cum laude at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan in 1996.

 

From 1996 to 2000, she has been brand manager with increasingly relevant roles in the marketing departments of Barilla Alimentare and Kraft Foods.

 

From 2000 to 2013, she has been senior sell-side financial analyst and partner in Intermonte SIM, responsible for the coverage of listed companies in the consumer and luxury sector.

 

She has been non-executive and independent board member in private and listed companies involved in significant M&A processes. She’s actually member of BoD, inter alia, of Recordati S.p.A., a company listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange (member of Risk, Control and CSR Committee, member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee), Nexi S.p.A., a company listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange (Chairman of the Remuneration and Appointment Committee, member of Related Parties Committee, Chairman, up until May 2022, of Internal Control, Risk and Sustainability Committee and Related Parties Committee) and Tinexta S.p.A., a company listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange (Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member, up until May 2021, of the Internal Control Committee).

Giorgio De Palma

Giorgio De Palma

Graduated summa cum laude in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He holds an engineering degree from the École Centrale de Paris.

 

His career began at Morgan Stanley, where he worked for more than four years in the M&A team.

 

He joined the Italian team at CVC Capital Partners in 2005, where he became Partner afterwards.

 

Giorgio De Palma currently holds the following positions: (i) Director of the Board of Directors of CVC Advisers (Italia) S.r.l., Recordati S.p.A. (listed on the Milan Stock Exchange), RGI S.p.A., MaticMind S.p.A., ii) Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mozart HoldCo S.p.A. and (ii) Sole Director of Donizetti Holdings S.r.l..

Luigi La Corte

Luigi La Corte has a degree cum laude in Economia and Business (with major in Economics) from LUISS University in Rome and a professional qualification as Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; he has a wide experience in international finance roles, a large part of which spent in the pharmaceutical industry.

 

In 1993 he started his professional career at Procter & Gamble, where he covered different financial positions with growing responsibilities: Financial Analyst for Benelux, Regional Capital Markets Manager and finally Group Manager Financial Planning and Analyst for the Nordics. In 1998 he moved to PepsiCo as International Corporate Finance Manager, to support European and Middle East business. After some years as Consultant at Bain & Company Italy, in 2004 he moved to Alliance Unichem’s pharmaceutical wholesaler and distribution business in Italy as Finance & Administration Director.

 

In 2005 he joined AstraZeneca as Chief Financial Officer of the Italian subsidiary, becoming then Regional Finance Director for the Asia-Pacific region and finally being appointed VP Finance for Global Commercial Organization, subsequently taking on financial responsibilities for the Global Product & Portfolio Strategy Unit.

 

In 2014 he joined GlaxoSmithKline as SVP Finance for the global Pharma R&D organization, taking later on also the responsibility of Head of Global Business Development. Finally, in 2017, he joined pladis Group, a leading snack and confectionary company, as Chief Financial Officer.

 

In November 2019 he joined Recordati as Group Chief Financial Officer, with responsibility for Finance, Investor Relations and Information Systems. In April 2022 he was appointed Director of Recordati S.p.A..

Joanna Le Couilliard

Independent Director

Joanna Le Couilliard has 25 years’ healthcare management experience gained in Europe, the United States and Asia.

Much of her career has been in pharmaceuticals at GlaxoSmithKline where, amongst other roles, she headed the U.S. vaccines business and Asia Pacific Pharmaceuticals business and led a program to modernise the commercial model.

She was previously Chief Operating Officer at the BMI group of private hospitals in the U.K. She was Non-Executive Director at Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust in the UK and at the Duke NUS Medical School in Singapore and Cello Health PLC and Alliance Pharma plc (the latter until early 2024), listed on the London Stock Exchange. Until May 2024 she was Non-Executive director of Niox Group PLC listed on the London Stock Exchange.

She is a graduate of Cambridge University and a Chartered Accountant.

She is currently a Non-Executive Director at Indivior PLC listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Giampiero Mazza

Giampiero Mazza graduated summa cum laude from Rice University (Houston, Texas, USA) with a degree in Economics in 1991 and he completed a Master in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) in 1996.

 

He started his career as business strategy Advisor in Bain & Company (Dallas, Texas, USA). He joined James D. Wolfensohn Inc (New York, NY, USA), a firm specialized in M&A transactions. From 2005 to 2010 he was Partner in BC Partners (London, UK), a private equity firm.

 

In 2010 he joined CVC Capital Partners, a private equity fund, where he is currently Managing Partner and member of the Investment Committee of CVC of the Milan office CVC Advisers (Italia) S.r.l., responsible for the Italian business.

 

Giampiero Mazza also holds the following positions: (i) member of the board of directors of CVC Advisers (Italia) S.r.l., Recordati S.p.A. (listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange), Multiversity S.p.A., Pegaso Management S.r.l., Università Telematica Pegaso S.p.A., Università Telematica Pegaso S.r.l., Bip S.p.A., Bach HoldCo S.p.A., Bach MidCo S.p.A., and (ii) Sole Director of Akoa Place S.r.l..

Piergiorgio Peluso

Independent Director

Diploma in humanities, degree in ‘Economics and Social Sciences (D.E.S.)’ from Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, with a specialization in Finance, obtained in 1992, and an experience in Arthur Andersen, he joined Mediobanca S.p.A. in the Participations and Special Affairs Service, dealing with mergers, acquisitions and financial restructuring.

 

In 1998 he worked at Credit Suisse First Boston in London on mergers, acquisitions and capital market transactions in the financial institutions (banking and insurance) and utilities area.

 

In 2002 he joined Medio Credito Centrale S.p.A. (Capitalia Group), as Central Director of the Advisory Area, and subsequently assumed direct responsibility for the Corporate Division of the Capitalia Group with the title of Central Director and member of the Executive Committee of the banking group. During the years of his management, he was actively involved in the Capitalia Group’s recovery plan. In 2007, following the merger between Capitalia S.p.A. and UniCredit Group S.p.A., he was confirmed as Head of Investment Banking in Italy and, subsequently, Managing Director of the corporate bank of the UniCredit Group (UniCredit Corporate Banking S.p.A.) and Head for Italy of the Corporate & Investment Banking Division of the banking group.

 

From 2011 to September 2012, he was General Manager of Fondiaria-SAI S.p.A., working on the relaunch plan of the insurance group and the subsequent integration with the Unipol group. From September 2012 to June 2019, he was Telecom Italia’s CFO, with responsibilities of various kinds in the areas of: planning and control, transformation office, purchasing, real estate and logistics, finance and investments, accounting and financial, tax, mergers and acquisitions and risk management; participation in road shows and meetings with investors; regular attendance in Telecom Italia’s Board of Directors and the Internal Control Committee.

 

During his career, he has also held the position of Director in several companies, including Banco di Sicilia S.p.A., Edison S.p.A., Gemina S.p.A., Aeroporti di Roma S.p.A., Milano Assicurazioni S.p.A., Fondazione Telecom Italia, Telecom Italia Media S.p.A. and Telecom Argentina S.A. (Argentina).

 

Since January 2020 he holds the position of member of the Board of Directors of KnowCE Srl, a start- up that deals with the monitoring of infrastructures and diagnostics for risk assessment. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Herambiente S.p.A. and of Recordati S.p.A. (listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange). Since 1st March 2023 he is Chief Financial Officer of Autostrade per l’Italia S.p.A..

Cathrin Petty

Cathrin Petty holds a Master of Arts in Natural Sciences from New Hall, Cambridge University and a post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies from the Judge Institute, Cambridge. 

 

She started her career at Schroders and Schroder Ventures. She has been partner at APAX Partners, and prior to moving to CVC Capital Partners, she was Head of Healthcare EMEA with JP Morgan Chase & Co. 

 

Currently, she serves as Managing Partner and Head of Healthcare at CVC Capital Partners, where she joined in July 2016.

 

Cathrin is currently member of the board of directors in the following companies: Theramex HQ UK Limited (significantly-sized company), Rayner, System C Holdings Limited, Graphnet Health Limited (significantly-sized company), Sebia and Recordati S.p.A. (listed on the Milan Stock Exchange). 

Kim Stratton

Kim Stratton has 30+ years experience in Biopharmaceuticals as CEO, C-Suite and Non-Executive Director and has held a variety of senior commercial leadership roles at both Global and country level, combined with experience in Global External & Public Affairs, HSE and Compliance & Diversity across developed and emerging markets.

 

Kim Stratton is recognized for her strong track record leading turnaround & business transformations and integrations in the rare diseases, specialty and primary care businesses.

 

Kim is currently (i) Chief Executive Officer of Centogene N.V. (Nasdaq listed company), (ii) Non-Executive Director and member of Nomination and Remuneration Committee and Integration Committee for Novesis A/S (listed company), a leading Biotech in industrial enzymes, proteins and microorganisms and iii) member of the Board of Directors of Recordati S.p.A. (listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange).

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