Watson Pharmaceuticals names new senior vice president of global operations

Posted on: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:52:00 EST


Symbols: WPI
Nov 18, 2009 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) --
WPI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Watson Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company, has appointed Robert Stewart as its new senior vice president of global operations.

In this position, Mr Stewart will have responsibility for global manufacturing, supply chain, quality and technical operations.

The company also announced that Thomas Russillo, executive vice president and president of the generics division, has been named executive vice president of global generics and will head the company's newly formed global generics commercial function.

In this position, Mr Russillo will have overall responsibility for generic sales and marketing for the US and Canada, as well as for all international markets that will be added to Watson following completion of the acquisition of the Arrow Group. Both Mr Stewart and Mr Russillo report to Paul Bisaro, president and CEO of Watson.

Mr Stewart joins Watson following an eight-year career at Abbott Laboratories, where he most recently served as divisional vice president of global supply chain. From 2005 until 2008, Mr Stewart served as divisional vice president of quality assurance.

Mr Russillo was appointed executive vice president and president of the generics division in 2006. Prior to joining Watson, he served as a consultant to the company in connection with the company's integration planning related to the acquisition of Andrx.

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