What Happened?
Florham Park, NJ-based Zoetis Appointed Roxanne Lagano as Chief Human Resources Officer
About the Company
Zoetis is a global animal health company dedicated to supporting customers and their businesses in ever better ways. Building on 60 years of experience, we deliver quality medicines and vaccines, complemented by diagnostics products and genetics tests and supported by a range of services. We are working every day to better understand and address the real-world challenges faced by those who raise and care for animals. Our name, Zoetis (zō-EH-tis), has its root in zo, familiar in words such as zoo and zoology and derived from zoetic, meaning “pertaining to life.” It signals our company`s dedication to supporting the veterinarians and livestock producers everywhere who raise and care for the farm and companion animals on which we all depend.
About the Person
Roxanne Lagano was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Zoetis in November 2012. In this role, she is responsible for the company`s worldwide human resources management. Prior to joining Zoetis, Ms. Lagano was senior vice president, Global Compensation, Benefits and Wellness for Pfizer. In that role, Ms. Lagano was responsible for the design and implementation of Pfizer`s compensation and employee benefit programs around the globe. She was also responsible for Pfizer`s wellness strategies, including the Healthy Pfizer program, and for the human resources aspects of the company`s merger, acquisition and divestiture activities. Ms. Lagano joined Pfizer in 1997 as manager, Tax Planning after specializing in employee benefits, executive compensation and mergers and acquisitions at Schulte, Roth and Zabel, LLP, a New York law firm. After joining Pfizer`s legal division in 1999, Ms. Lagano joined Pfizer`s Human Resources organization in 2000. During her time in HR for Pfizer, Ms. Lagano held various positions of increasing responsibility, including senior director of business transactions (HR) and senior director, employee benefits. Ms. Lagano holds a Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University.
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