Megan Wherry Menner

Biography

Megan Wherry Menner has extensive HR experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech and life sciences industries. She was previously with Merck KGaA for eight years, most recently as Vice President and Head of HR for the global €4.6B Merck Millipore Life Science business. In this role, Megan was responsible for HR strategy, business partnership and all HR functions aligned to the Life Science business, including the people and organization integration of the Sigma-Aldrich acquisition. Also at Merck KGaA, Megan served as VP and Head of HR International where she had responsibility for all HR team members in 60+ countries as well as VP and Head of HR for EMD Serono, where she led all HR functions for the $1.2B US Pharma business. Before that, Megan spent five years at Novartis through a period of rapid growth, most recently serving as Head of Talent and Culture Development for the entire Research organization globally, and held several senior HR business partner roles in the US and in the UK. Megan also worked in Leadership Development at Amgen and HR Business Partnership at Bristol-Myers Squibb and earlier in her career in Talent Acquisition at a software start-up company as an outgrowth of MIT Sloan Business School that was acquired by Lucent Technologies. Megan earned both her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Economics and her Master’s degree in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior from Cornell University.

Research Interest

  Pharmaceutical Sciences