Primary Job Title Board of Directors Primary Organization 
Novartis
Gender Male
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Enrico Vanni has been a member of the Board of Directors
since 2011. He qualifies as an independent Non-Executive Director.
He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and
Chairman of the Compensation Committee. He is also a member of
the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Research &
Development Committee.
Since his
retirement as director of McKinsey & Company in 2007,
Vanni has been an independent consultant. He is currently a
member of several boards of directors in industries from healthcare
to private banking, including Advanced Oncotherapy plc in England,
and several non-listed companies including Lombard Odier SA,
Banque Privée BCP (Suisse) SA, Eclosion2, Jan-Autos Holding SA,
and Denzler & Partners SA, all based in Switzerland.
Vanni holds an engineering degree in chemistry from the
Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland, a Ph.D. in
chemistry from the University of Lausanne; as well as a Master of
Business Administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He
began his career as a research engineer at International Business
Machines Corp. in California, United States, and joined McKinsey &
Company in Zurich in 1980. He managed the Geneva office for
McKinsey from 1988 to 2004, and consulted for companies in the
pharmaceutical, consumer and finance sectors. He led McKinsey’s
European pharmaceutical practice and served as a member of the
firm’s partner review committee prior to his retirement in 2007. As
an independent consultant, Vanni has continued to support
leaders of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on core
strategic challenges facing the healthcare industry.
