AMRI Promotes Richard A. Saffee to Vice President and General Manager of Large Scale Manufacturing

AMRI announced today that Richard A. Saffee has been promoted to the newly created role of Vice President and General Manager of Large Scale Manufacturing, effective immediately. He will continue to report to Steven R. Hagen, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing.

Mr. Saffee will assume oversight for large scale manufacturing in Aurangabad, India in addition to his current responsibilities for leadership of AMRI's large scale manufacturing and GMP business in the United States in the Capital Region of New York. Additionally, Mr. Saffee will work with AMRI's Holywell, UK site to assist them in their large scale manufacturing business. Mr. Saffee will be positioned to drive synergies between the locations that will improve quality, efficiency and delivery of API's.

Before coming to AMRI, Mr. Saffee led manufacturing activities for multiple U.S.-based operations for Pfizer Global Manufacturing and Pfizer Global Human Health.