Liisa Hurme - Orion Oyj Chairman

Dr. Liisa Hurme was appointed Senior Vice President, Supply Chain at Orion Oyj, effective as of January 1, 2019. She has also been Chairman of the Board of Fermion Oy at the Company since January 1, 2014. She was Member of the Executive Management Board of the Company since January 1, 2008. She no longer serves as Senior Vice President, Specialty Products effective as of January 1, 2019. She has held the position since January 1, 2014. She served as Senior Vice President, Proprietary Products at the Company from January 1, 2008 until January 1, 2014. She joined the Company in 1999 as Researcher and Project Manager, Hormonal therapies, and held the position until 2001. Later on, she moved to Project Manager position and in 2002 was appointed Portfolio Manager. After two years, she became Program Leader of pharmaceutical development projects for Hormonal and Urological therapies and was appointed Head of Urology and Oncology business in 2005. Prior to Orion, she worked for Pharmacia Upjohn as Researcher at Diagnostics Unit, Sweden, and as Researcher, Development projects at ELIAS GmbH, Germany, and Institute Pasteur, France. She was Member of the Board of Directors of Finnish Bioindustries FIB and Pharmaservice Oy Member of the Economic Social Policy Committee of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations EFPIA, as well as Member of the Healthcare Sector Committee of the National Emergency Supply Organization . She holds Doctorate in Philosophy degree in Biochemistry from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, 1996. since 2019.