Fritz Heinrich Horlacher

Biography

Mr. Fritz Heinrich HORLACHER, age 66, is an independent nonexecutive Director of our Company. Mr. Horlacher joined our Group on 10 Februar y 2011. He has over 30 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Horlacher started his pharmaceutical career with Roche Australia in 1974. Mr. Horlacher worked at Zuellig Pharma Asia Pacific (“Zuellig Pharma”) from 1981 to 2008 and was the chief executive officer of Zuellig Pharma from 1995 to 2008. He was responsible for its operations servicing more than 125 international research-based pharmaceutical manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region.Mr. Horlacher retired as chief executive officer of Zuellig Pharma in 2008. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Horlacher was an alternate director of Invida Group Pte Ltd. Mr. Horlacher was a non-executive director of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (a company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange) from 2002 to 2004. Mr. Horlacher was the Asia representative on the board of directors of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers from 2002 to 2008. He was regional director of Asia for the Pharmaceutical Wholesale Division of Alliance Boots and was also a director and chairman of the Board of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Corporation from 2011 to 2013. Mr. Horlacher was a non-executive member of the Advisory Board of BSN Medical, a global medical device company based in Hamburg, Germany, from January 2013 to August 2015. Mr. Horlacher graduated in 1969 from Montana Institute in Switzerland and from Union College in South Africa in 1972.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutical science