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Patrice Coissac joined Alexion as Senior Vice President General Manager and President of Alexion Europe SAS in November 2005. Mr. Coissac has a broad international background in the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently since mid 2004 he founded and ran his own consulting firm to serve the bio pharmaceutical companies in their strategic development. Previously he was President of Pharmacia SAS in France a position he held from 1999 to mid 2003 when Pharmacia was acquired by Pfizer. While at Pharmacia Mr. Coissac was responsible for the integration of Monsanto (Searle) with Pharmacia & Upjohn in France. During his tenure sales grew almost three fold to €615 millions in 2002. Prior to joining Pharmacia Mr. Coissac held several managerial positions at leading pharmaceutical companies including Head of Operations for Novartis Belgium; and President of Boehringer Mannheim Therapeutics in France. Mr. Coissac also served as Senior Vice President Marketing for global pharmaceutical operations at Corange International. And previously he held several global marketing positions in Sandoz Pharmaceuticals: in Tokyo where he was posted during several years in Switzerland in Sandoz World Headquarters and in France at the beginning of his career. | 