Pharmaceuticals
10 Merck operations leaders
These ten people hold or have held senior vice president, vice president and executive director roles in operations at Merck, including leaders of global pharmaceutical operations and global packaging operations. A reader can learn how operations leaders build and run their teams in pharmaceutical companies.
Professionals to explore
01—10Andrew Stratton
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Operations · Merck
Vice President Operations at Merck since May 2025; the profile says the role leads the manufacturing and supply network of 11 large molecule Animal Health sites in the Americas and APAC. Former Merck roles include Regional Lead (2022–2025), VP - Manufacturing Systems Design and Commercialization. (2020–2023) and AVP Plant Management (2019–2020).
Chris D'Auria
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Operations · Merck
Executive Director, Operations at Merck since March 2026, and the profile also lists Executive Director, Operations at Merck for 2022–2026. Former Director, Operations at Merck in three listed rows (2021–2022, 2021 and 2018–2020); the profile describes experience across biologics and vaccine manufacturing, capital projects and portfolio management at Merck.
Craig Kennedy
LinkedInExperience: Vice President North America and Consumer Care Operations · Merck
Former Vice President North America and Consumer Care Operations at Merck (2011–2012) and former Vice President - Plant Manager Stonewall Plant at Merck (2008–2011). Former Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain Management at Merck (2012–2023), and SVP Supply Chain Management at Moderna since April 2023.
Ger Carmody
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President - Global Pharmaceutical Operations · Merck
Senior Vice President - Global Pharmaceutical Operations at Merck since October 2021. Former Merck roles on the profile are Vice President - Global Pharmaceutical Operations Merck (2019–2021), Associate Vice President - Operations (2014–2019) and Executive Director - Operations (2011–2014); the profile mentions leading a Lean Six Sigma program implementation.
John Thomas McCubbins
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Global Pharmaceutical Operations · Merck
Former Senior Vice President, Global Pharmaceutical Operations at Merck (2017–2021), and Senior Vice President Global Science, Engineering, and Commercialization at Merck since October 2021. Other former Merck roles are Senior Vice President of Global Animal Health Manufacturing (2011–2017) and Senior Vice President of Global Biologics Manufacturing (2009–2011).
Jon Logue
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director of Operations · Merck
Executive Director of Operations at Merck since July 2023; the profile cites technical expertise in aseptic filling across multiple filling technologies. Former Director Engineering (2019–2023) and Associate Director Operations (2017–2019) at Merck, and former Technical Services Manager at Sanofi (2015–2017).
Kelley Brna
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Global Packaging Operations · Merck
Vice President Global Packaging Operations at Merck since August 2021, and Vice President Operations at Merck since the same month. Former Vice President Operations External Manufacturing (2020–2021), Associate Vice President Operations External Manufacturing API (2019–2020) and Plant Manager (2014–2019) at Merck.
Nate Rasmussen
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Operations · Merck
Executive Director, Operations at Merck since July 2022, based in Elkhorn, Nebraska, and former Executive Director, Operations at Merck (2021–2022) in Millsboro. Former Director, Plant Management at Merck (2017–2021) and former Production Planning Manager at DuPont Pioneer (2015–2017).
Sanat Chattopadhyay
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Global Manufacturing Operations (Human Health) · Merck
Former Senior Vice President, Global Manufacturing Operations (Human Health) at Merck (2014–2016). The listing shows Executive Vice President & President, Merck Manufacturing Division at Merck from April 2016 with no end date, while the profile headline describes that role as former; the profile says the role covered worldwide manufacturing and supply operations.
Todd Rohrbach
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director of Operations · Merck
Executive Director of Operations at Merck since February 2024, a Director-level role in the Operations department. Former Merck roles listed are Director, Engineering (2011–2024), Senior Process Engineer (2005–2011), Manager - Sterile Manufacturing Services (2001–2005) and Manufacturing Department Head (1999–2001) in West Point, Pennsylvania.
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Match the person's scope to your question: global and network-level vice presidents suit questions about running many plants and product types, while executive directors of operations suit questions about running one site or production area day to day. Check whether the relevant Merck role is current or past before asking about recent practice.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you set priorities across safety, quality, supply and cost in a pharmaceutical manufacturing network?
- 02What does a network-level operations team decide, and what is left to individual plants and production areas?
- 03How do you prepare a site to start up a new facility or take on a new product?
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