Elcin Barker Ergun is a business leader in the pharmaceutical industry. In September 2019 she was appointed chief executive officer and member of the board of directors of the Italian company Menarini Group.

Biography

Ergun graduated from

TED Ankara College TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. It consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. Its İncek Campus, considered sizeable with 141,000 square meters of enclosed and over 309,000 square ...

(high school) in Turkey, where she also played basketball and handball and was a member of the team that won the national championship three times. Elcin has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a prestigious public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, ...

in Ankara and an MBA from

INSEAD INSEAD ( ; French: ''Institut européen d'administration des affaires'') is a non-profit business school with locations in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and North America (San Francisco, USA ...

(Institut Europeen d’Administration Des Affaires). Ergun's career started as a software engineer, working for five years in IT management in

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for ITT Corporation. After her MBA in France, Ergun moved to the UK, leading marketing and supply chain projects at the Northern European head office of

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and later continued as subsidiary chief financial officer. Ergun entered the pharmaceutical industry as chief financial officer of the Turkish subsidiary of

GlaxoSmithKline GSK plc (an acronym from its former name GlaxoSmithKline plc) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational Pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with headquarters in London. It was established in 2000 by a Mergers an ...

. After joining Merck KGaA's Healthcare business, Elcin took on roles of increasing seniority within the organisation becoming Executive Vice President and Head of Global Commercial for Merck Serono, achieving significant leadership and business transformation across global commercial operations. This followed her role as Senior Vice President and Head of Intercontinental Region, across the Middle East, Africa, and Russia/CIS countries. Before she joined Menarini Group, Elcin was based in Boston for three years as Executive Vice President, Head of New Businesses at Merck Healthcare. Under Ergun's leadership, Menarini has accomplished milestones such as the 2020 acquisition of Stemline Therapeutics, a U.S. commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, formerly a public listed organization quoted on NASDAQ, focused on the development and commercialization of novel oncology therapeutics.

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