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Dr. Gunnar Riemann
Dr. Gunnar Riemann
Dr. Gunnar Riemann has been a Member of the Board of Management of Bayer Schering Pharma AG since September 2006. He has also been a Member of the Board of Management of Bayer HealthCare AG since 2004.
On the Bayer Schering Pharma AG Board of Management he is responsible for four business areas: Diagnostic Imaging, General Medicine, Specialty Medicine and Women's Healthcare.
Gunnar Riemann was born in Hameln, Germany, on October 26, 1958. He studied pharmacy at Braunschweig Technical University and was awarded a Ph.D. in biochemistry for a doctoral thesis written at the German Research Center for Biotechnology. Dr. Riemann started his career with Bayer in 1986 at the Health Care Sector's Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology in Leverkusen, Germany. He was manager of a pharmaceuticals production plant from 1987 to 1991. He then headed OTC product development at the Bayer subsidiary Miles Inc., Elkhart, Illinois until 1994.
Dr. Riemann was subsequently Head of the Household Products Business Unit in the Consumer Care Business Group in Leverkusen. In 1996 he was appointed Regional Director Asia/South America. From 1999 to September 2001 Dr. Riemann was responsible for the Consumer Care division's business in Europe.
He was subsequently appointed Head of the Biological Products Business Group, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He was also Executive Vice-President and a member of the Executive Committee of Bayer Corporation. From January 2004 to March 2006 he was Head of the Animal Health Division at Bayer HealthCare.
Dr. Gunnar Riemann is married and has three children.