Dr Cosséry will replace Ramona Sequeira, who has been UK managing director for three years and will be taking a new role at Lilly’s Corporate Centre in Indianapolis in the USA.
Jean-Michel Cosséry joined Lilly in October after eight years at GE Healthcare where he was VP and chief marketing officer.
Dr Cosséry began his career as a researcher in neurosciences at the National Institutes of Health in America, after completing his PharmD and PhD Pharmacology in Paris, France.
