General Counsel for Swiss Pharma Giant Roche Is Stepping Down
Gottlieb Keller will retire in March after serving as GC for more than a decade. His successor, Claudia Böckstiegel, is being promoted from her post as legal head of Roche's diagnostics division.
December 10, 2019 at 01:34 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Corporate Counsel
The longtime general counsel of F. Hoffmann-La Roche is preparing to hand over the reins of the Swiss global healthcare company's legal department.
Claudia Böckstiegel will step up from her post as legal head of Roche's diagnostics division and take over as general counsel when Gottlieb Keller retires on March 31. Keller, 65, arrived at Roche in 1984 as a corporate counsel and steadily climbed the company's ranks until he reached the top lawyer position in 2008.
Last year, Keller received $1.5 million in base salary along with $1.4 million in bonus pay and more than $1 million in stock appreciation rights, according to Roche's annual financial report.
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