About the Speaker: Lori Canzanese is the Executive Director of Manufacturing IT Data and Analytics and External Manufacturing at Merck. In her role, she leads on global external manufacturing IT leadership team providing business relationship management for her organizations, and she works to ensure the support of the strategy through enabling people, process and technology. She has been with Merck for 30 years and has held role in program management, IT, client services and more. She has post-secondary education from La Salle University.

About the company: Merck & Co. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey. The company does business as Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the United States and Canada. It is named after the Merck family, which set up Merck Group in Germany in 1668. Merck develops and produces medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products. It has multiple blockbuster drugs or products, including cancer immunotherapy, anti-diabetic medication and vaccines against HPV and chickenpox. The company is ranks #71 on the Fortune 500 and #87 on the Forbes Global 2000, both based on 2021 revenues. Merck is the world’s 7th largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalization and revenue.

Employees: 71,000

Revenue: US$47.99 billion