Mr. Hen is a managing director at Warburg Pincus LLC, a leading global private equity firm. He focuses on investments in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, including pharmaceutical outsourcing. Mr. Hen has more than 17 years of experience in the life sciences industry. Prior to Warburg Pincus, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company serving the pharmaceutical industry. Previously, he worked at Merck in both research and development and manufacturing. Mr. Hen holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Dr. Zhao, one of WuXi's co-founders, is currently lead advisor to the company's analytical services operations. She was vice president of WuXi's analytical department from 2004 to 2008 and also established its Bio-Analytical Services, Core Analytical Services, and Analytical Development Services departments. She previously worked for Wyeth as a senior research scientist, for Pharmacopeia as a group leader for the high-throughput analysis of combinatorial libraries, and for Bristol-Myers Squibb as a site leader in the Discovery Analytical Sciences department.

 

Dr. Zhao is the co-inventor of numerous patents and has published and presented more than 36 scientific papers. With more than 10 years' experience in analytical sciences in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, she has received numerous awards, including the 2002 Chemistry Leadership Award from Bristol-Myers Squibb and the 1995 Pegram Award from Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. Dr. Zhao is married to Dr. Li.

 

Separately, WuXi announced that Mr. Tao Lin, the company's Vice President of Internal Operations since 2002 and a director of the company since 2005, has resigned from the board of directors and as a company officer for personal reasons. Mr. Lin was one of the founders of the company.