Michel Vounatsos

Mr. Vounatsos served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of Biogen Inc. from January 2017 to November 2022, shortly after joining the company as Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer in April 2016.

Prior to joining Biogen, Mr. Vounatsos spent twenty years at Merck & Co., Inc., where he held a number of leadership roles in strategy, commercial operations and business development. Most recently, he served as President, Primary Care and Merck Customer Centricity, where he led the company’s global primary care business. While at Merck, Mr. Vounatsos also served as President of MSD China and held several commercial leadership positions across Europe. Prior to joining Merck, Mr. Vounatsos held management positions at Ciba-Geigy, a Swiss pharmaceuticals company that eventually formed Novartis through its merger with Sandoz Inc.

Mr. Vounatsos currently serves on the Board of PerkinElmer, Inc., where he is a member of the Audit Committee (March 2020-Present) and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee (Oct.2022-Present). Mr. Vounatsos also serves on the Board of Zai Lab (Jan 2023-Present), where he is Chair of the Commercial Committee and member of the Research and Development Committee. In addition, he is on the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Chair of Supervisory Board of LIRYC, the Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute at the University of Bordeaux.

Mr. Vounatsos obtained his C.S.C.T. certificate in Medicine from Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux II, France, and an MBA from HEC School of Management in Paris.