Fred Hassan
Managing Director
Healthcare
New York
Fred Hassan is based in New York and joined Warburg Pincus in 2011. Mr. Hassan is chairman of Bausch + Lomb, as well as a board member of Time Warner and Avon, where he serves as non-executive chairman. Mr. Hassan is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Schering-Plough Corporation. Prior to joining Schering-Plough in April 2003, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Pharmacia Corporation, a company that was formed in March 2000, as a result of the merger of Monsanto and Pharmacia & Upjohn. Mr. Hassan joined Pharmacia & Upjohn as chief executive officer in 1997. Previously, Mr. Hassan was executive vice president of Wyeth, formerly known as American Home Products, with responsibility for its pharmaceutical and medical products business. He was elected to Wyeth’s board of directors in 1995. Earlier in his career, he spent 17 years with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis) and headed its U.S. pharmaceuticals business. Mr. Hassan has chaired three significant pharmaceutical industry organizations—The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations and the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey. He is also a member of The Business Council. Mr. Hassan received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
