Fadi Debes

Fadi Debes joined Elanco in 2018 as senior vice president, Corporate Controller and Global Business Services.

Prior to Elanco, Fadi worked at Eli Lilly and Company starting in 2002 as a financial analyst for the Middle East. He took several roles in finance prior to moving to the U.S. in 2009 as BD director for Emerging Markets. He relocated to Dubai in 2012 heading finance and BD for South Asia, Middle East, Turkey, Africa and Russia-CIS. In 2016, he moved to the UK as CFO for Europe prior to relocating to the U.S. in 2017 where he was most recently a senior director for Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL) covering both Research and the Medicines Development Unit (MDU).

Fadi has a diversified work experience and background. He holds a university degree in specialized mathematics, a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Université Saint Joseph in Beirut and a Masters in Management from HEC Paris with Finance as Major.

He initially started his career in construction engineering and project management. Before joining Lilly, he was working in investment banking in Paris.