MARY SHEAHAN
Senior VP, Global Integration & Country Manager Ireland, Perrigo Company
Mary is Senior Vice-President of Global Integration and Country Manager for Ireland of Perrigo Company, an Irish-headquartered, NASDAQ-listed pharmaceutical company with a market capitalisation of $16 Billion, over 13,000 global employees, and annual revenues of $6 Billion. In her role as Country Manager, Mary is responsible for Perrigo’s strategic direction in Ireland; interacting with government agencies and other stakeholders on Perrigo’s behalf. She has been instrumental in driving philanthropic investment in Ireland by Perrigo including sponsorship of College Awareness Week, disease advocacy group support and other charitable contributions. In her global corporate capacity as Senior Vice-President of Global Integration, Mary has a pivotal role in assuring the success of Perrigo’s acquisition growth strategy; reporting to the CEO and Executive Committee.
Mary’s career spans more than 20 years, starting out as an accounting trainee and auditor with KPMG, from where she joined Elan Corporation, plc, a leading indigenous Irish pharmaceutical company with a market capitalisation of $9 Billion. At the time of Elan’s acquisition by Perrigo, Mary was a member of the Corporate Executive Team reporting directly to the CEO. Over the years at Elan, Mary held key leadership roles in the US and in Ireland, in commercial, research and development, corporate finance, treasury, corporate HR, information technology, facilities and portfolio assessment. Mary’s board positions have included serving as a director of Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy, the joint venture between Elan and Johnson & Johnson, seeking to develop ground breaking therapies for Alzheimer’s disease. Mary holds a commerce degree and masters in accounting from University College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Ireland.