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<p align="center"><b>PLIVA's Management Board</b></p> |
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<p><b>Zeljko Covic</b>, M.Sc., <b><i>President & CEO</i></b>. Born 1953. Graduated |
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from the School of Food & Biotechnology, University of Zagreb (1978). |
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In 1991 earned his M.Sc. and in 1999 completed SSE at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Laussanne. Received in 1999 ING Baring and Emerging Markets CEO of the Year Award for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Currently is a member of the Business Advisory Council of the Stability Pact. A member of the PLIVA team since 1980. Appointed Director |
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of Food Production (1985) and Marketing & Sales Director of Food (1988). Member |
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of the Executive Council and Secretary of Economic Affairs in the Zagreb City |
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Assembly (1991-1993). From 1993 to 1995, served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and as of 1995, President of the Management |
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Board of PLIVA.</p> |
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<p><b>Dubravko Mak</b>, <b><i>Vice-President, Global Business |
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Development</i></b>. Born 1958. Graduated |
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from the School of Economics, University of Zagreb (1981). A member of the PLIVA |
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team since 1983. Employed in the Export Department (1994-1988), advancing |
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to become President of PLIVA USA, Inc., New York (1988-1995), Vice-President |
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of PLIVA Management Board in charge of Business Development (1995-1999) and Pharmaceuticals Operations (1999-2001).</p> |
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<p><b>Radan Spaventi</b>, Ph.D., <b><i>Vice-President & CSO</i></b>. |
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Born |
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1962. Graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb (1986) and earned his Ph.D. in 1993. Post-doctoral fellow abroad on several occasions (including Harvard Medical |
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School, Boston, USA and Imperial Cancer Research |
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Fund, UK). Appointed Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Pathology, Department |
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of Molecular Medicine, "Ruder Boskovic" Institute, Zagreb (1987). Author of |
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more than 30 scientific research papers published in international |
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journals, author/editor of three books. Received the award for outstanding contribution |
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to Medical Science and Arts (1994) from the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts. Joined |
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the PLIVA team (1995) as Research Institute Director. Member of the Management Board since 1999.</p> |
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<p><b>Zeljko Peric</b>, <i><b>Vice-President & CFO</b></i>. Born 1958. |
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Graduated |
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from the School of Foreign Trade, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Worked on foreign investments for INGRA (1984-1990). Finance Director of a Malaysian project. Upon returning to Croatia, appointed Manager of the department for implementing projects in the Middle East. Senior Advisor for the International Economic Relations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990-1992). For a short period of time held the position of Finance Director in "Hidroelektra". A member of the PLIVA team since 1993, first as Director of Consulting (currently Engineering) and then as Finance Director (since 1996). Member of the Management Board since 1999.</p> |
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<p><b>Zelimir Vuksic</b>, M.D., <i><b>Vice-President, |
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Pharmaceuticals</b></i>. Born 1962. Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of |
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Zagreb, Croatia (1986). He attended postgraduate study in Clinical pharmacology at the same University (1989), and MBA at the School of Business and Administration at the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb (1993). After a successful career at Knoll where he was the youngest General Manager in the BASF corporation, he joined PLIVA's team in 1997 as Director of Marketing and Sales. As of 1999, Director of PLIVA's Pharmaceutical Operations. Member of the Management Board since 2001.</p> |