Jennifer McCafferty

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DR. JENNIFER FINNEGAN McCAFFERTY is senior vice president, regulatory CMC and quality assurance with responsibility for R&D QA and innovative regulatory strategies, global pipeline, and commercial marketing authorization and development quality across Merck’s biologics, vaccine and pharmaceutical product portfolio. McCafferty is a cross-divisional, future-focused global pharmaceutical industry executive with a track record of developing and executing innovative strategies that drive business growth, transform operating models, optimize productivity and enable diverse talent. McCafferty has championed strategic transformations in pharmaceutical manufacturing and technical operations; designed and executed supply chain strategies; operated at manufacturing and supply sites across the Americas, Europe, India and Asia-Pacific; and assured quality, regulatory compliance & risk management in a highly regulated industry. McCafferty delivers business results through her collaborative and dynamic leadership style, creating high-value partnerships and building organizational cultures that consistently outperform goals, placing breakthrough medicines in the hands of patients around the world.