Senior Vice President & Managing Director of MSD Germany
Chantal Friebertshaeuser is the Senior Vice President
and Managing Director of MSD Germany since March
2019. She also sits on the Board of the German
American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham).
MSD is the trade name of Merck & Co. Inc. outside of
the USA and Canada, headquartered in Kenilworth, New
Jersey USA. In Germany, the biopharmaceutical
company headquartered in Haar, employs more than
2,500 people over7 sites with focus in the fields of both
human and animal health.
Chantal started at MSD in Germany in 2007, and since then has heldseveral roles of
increasing responsibility within the company. This has included Managing Director of
Austria, where she also served as Vice President of the Austrian Pharmig; and ssociate
Vice President in Global Vaccines, leading the HPV vaccines franchise. Prior to MSD
she worked at Eli Lilly Pharma for 10 years.
Chantal is a French citizen and holds a diploma from the Business School of ESC
Rennes (France) and a Master of Arts in International Business from the Open
University (UK). She is also a certified Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma