Robert Béland

As Group Vice President, Discovery and Preclinical, Robert Béland leads the development and regulatory services, pharmacology, metabolism resource, and drug safety assessment divisions of MDS Pharma Services with a team of over 700 employees located in North America, Asia and Europe. He has more than 20 years of global general management experience, as well as expertise in operations, business development and scientific affairs.

Before joining MDS Pharma Services in 2003 as Senior Vice President for Discovery and Preclinical of Early Stage Development, Mr. Béland served as Vice President, Corporate and Scientific Affairs for Jamieson Laboratories; Vice President, General Manager, Nutrition Division for R.P. Scherer and President, North America for Arkopharma LLC.

Mr. Béland attended university in Health Sciences at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and received a bachelor of science in Chemistry from the Université de Montréal. He has been a member of the Quebec Order of Chemists since 1982.