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Scott A. Canute became president of manufacturing operations for Lilly in September 2004, and is a member of the company's policy and strategy committee and the operations committee. He had been vice president of pharmaceutical manufacturing and strategy since July 1999.
Born in Traverse City, Mich., he received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1982 and a master of business administration degree from the Harvard Business School in 1991.
Canute joined Lilly in 1982 as a chemical engineer in the plant engineering group at Clinton Laboratories. He had various engineering positions at Clinton Labs and worked in technical services before becoming department head of product recovery operations in 1987. In 1989, he worked briefly in international treasury before taking a leave from Lilly to attend Harvard University. He returned to Lilly in 1991 as manager of manufacturing strategy development. In 1993, he became manager of human resource business planning before transferring in 1994 to serve as general manager of Eli Lilly S.A. (Irish Branch), where he was responsible for manufacturing facilities in Kinsale, Ireland. He was named general manager of manufacturing for European operations in 1998.
Since 2001, Canute has been a board member of the Indiana Manufacturers Association (IMA) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). | 