Werner Baumann
Member of the Executive Board
Werner Baumann is Member of the Board of Management of Bayer Schering Pharma AG. Within the combined pharmaceutical businesses of Bayer und Schering, he is responsible for Central Administration and Organization. He is also responsible for the entire Bayer HealthCare subgroup in this function. He is the management board member responsible for Human Resources (and Labor Director) and Production at Bayer Schering Pharma.
Werner Baumann has been a member of the Bayer HealthCare (BHC) Executive Committee and Head of Central Administration and Organization since July 1, 2002. On October 1, 2003, he was appointed to the Board of Management of Bayer HealthCare AG. Werner Baumann is also the Labor Director of Bayer HealthCare AG and since March 1, 2006, Head of BHC Business Development & Licensing.
Career
Werner Baumann was born on October 6, 1962, in Krefeld, Germany. After studying economics at Aachen Technical University and Cologne University, he joined Bayer AG in Leverkusen in 1988. His first duties were in the Southwest Europe section of the Corporate Finance Department. In 1991 he transferred to Bayer Hispania Comercial in Barcelona, Spain, to take up a position as controller. He became assistant to the managing director there in 1995. One year later, Werner Baumann moved to Bayer Corporation in Tarrytown, New York, where, most recently, he was in charge of the global Business Planning & Administration organization for the Diagnostics Business Group.
