Date: 2018-04-03
Type of information: Nomination
Compound: member of the board of directors
Company: BeiGene (China)
Therapeutic area: Cancer - Oncology
Type agreement: nomation
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- • On April 3, 2018, BeiGene announced the appointment of J. Samuel (Sam) Su to its Board of Directors. Mr. Su, 65, retired from Yum! Brands, Inc. in May 2016, where he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, and was the Chairman and CEO of the company’s China division. During Mr. Su’s 26 years with the company, its China division grew from just four restaurants to over 7,000 to become the largest multinational restaurant chain in China, contributing more than half of Yum! Brands' world-wide revenues in 2015.
- Mr. Su started his career with Yum! Brands in 1989 as KFC International's director of marketing for the North Pacific region. In 1993, he became vice president of North Asia for both KFC and Pizza Hut. Mr. Su was named president of Greater China for Tricon Global Restaurants International upon Pepsi's spin-off of the restaurant business in 1997. Before joining Yum! Brands, Mr. Su worked with Procter & Gamble in Germany and Taiwan. Mr. Su currently serves as a director of Li Ning Company Limited, and of the board of directors of Peet’s Coffee China; he also serves as an operating partner at Hillhouse Capital.
- Mr. Su earned his undergraduate degree at the National Taiwan University, an M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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