Philippe Deecke

Philippe Deecke is currently the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Lonza Group, a position he assumed on December 1, 2021.12 Prior to joining Lonza, he had a significant career at Novartis, where he held various senior finance positions over more than 16 years.13

At Sandoz, a Novartis division specializing in generics and biosimilars, Philippe Deecke served as the Global CFO from 2017 to 2021.13 In this role, he supported margin improvement across the business, including the manufacturing network, and enabled business growth through strategic approaches to Business Development and Licensing (BD&L) and M&A activities.3

Philippe Deecke holds an MBA from Cornell University's Johnson School (US), a Master's Degree in Industrial Management and Manufacturing from ETH Zurich (CH), and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich (CH).1 He is multilingual, with native or bilingual proficiency in German and French, and full professional proficiency in English.4

His LinkedIn username is indeed philippedeecke.4