Lisa French is our Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, a role she assumed in October 2022. She has executive responsibility for all commercial and market-access activities for the company’s Specialty Brands products, as well as new product launch execution for assets in Mallinckrodt’s near-term development portfolio. Ms. French is a member of Mallinckrodt’s executive committee.
Ms. French has more than 30 years of experience in U.S. go-to-market commercialization strategy development and operating experience across the therapeutics lifecycle.
Before joining Mallinckrodt, Ms. French served as U.S. Business Unit Lead of the Women’s Health Franchise at Organon & Co.’s, a global healthcare company, where she led the commercial team, from January 2021 through September 2022. Prior to that, she held various positions of increasing responsibility at Merck, a pharmaceutical company, where she ultimately led all aspects of a multi-billion dollar brand, executed commercial innovation initiatives and oversaw multiple sales teams, including as Associate Vice President, U.S. Marketing Lead HPV Franchise, from October 2019 until January 2021 and as Associate Vice President, U.S. Strategy and Commercial Model Innovation, from January 2016 until October 2019.
Ms. French holds a B.S. in Biology from West Chester University and completed Harvard Business School’s Emerging Leaders and Leadership & Strategy executive programs.