new regents ANNE-MARIE LAW P’19 ‘21 ‘24 Anne-Marie Law is the executive vice president, chief human experience officer of Alexion, responsible for human resources, patient advocacy, and digital & IT globally, with the goal of turning patient insights into innovative solutions and building world-class leadership and innovation capabilities across the organization to advance Alexion’s mission to be the No. 1 patient-centric rare disease company. In this role, she enables the organization to deliver meaningful, connected, and integrated patient and employee experiences. Upon joining Alexion, Anne-Marie spearheaded Alexion’s transition from a product to a customer-centric company and defined the cultural and technical capabilities necessary to deliver on that intent. She has guided the executive committee to make bold talent bets including a HQ move to Boston, investments in talent capabilities, and a profound focus on achieving growth ambitions through patient centricity accelerated by digital and new technologies. Anne-Marie brings more than 25 years of experience transforming global organizations by consistently driving exceptional business results and culture change. She has held various roles across healthcare, retail, and technology and has led complex teams including multi-national and cross-cultural workforces in many global locations. Anne-Marie is experienced at transforming organizations through a focus on people and she has applied this approach in various contexts including rapid business innovation, re-organizations, M&A, divestitures, turnarounds, spinoffs, new business and geographic expansion, and crises.
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Anne-Marie is passionate and experienced at designing ‘purpose-built’ organizations and building people functions dedicated to driving business agendas through customer connectivity. She is an advocate for the role people play in delivering competitive advantage and embedding human-centered design to drive organizational change. Anne-Marie is described as an inspirational leader and a change agent who ignites employees toward achieving a vision by personally connecting them with the strategy. She is dedicated to creating environments for people to live their purpose, belong, and perform work that is fulfilling, valuable and meaningful to each. She enjoys mentoring peers and leaders and is sought after as a trusted advisor across the company. She co-sponsors Alexion’s Purpose Driven Leadership Program and is invested in the success and growth of Alexion’s top leaders. Prior to joining Alexion, she served as chief human resources officer at Hyatt Hotels Corporation, where she was responsible for building the strategy to support 100k employees worldwide, designing talent systems to create leadership and customer connectivity capabilities. She previously served as executive vice president and head of human resources for Baxalta Incorporated, where she played a pivotal role in guiding Baxalta’s spin-off from Baxter and eventually Baxalta’s successful integration into Shire. Anne-Marie also lead the people function at McKesson Corporation, Specialty Health Division, was CHRO at VeriSign, held leadership roles at Xilinx, Inc and started her career at Marks & Spencer U.K limited. Anne-Marie was born and grew up in London and lived in various cities across the UK and Ireland before emigrating to the United States in 2004. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband, Michael, her three teenage children – John-Joe, Danny and Eloise – and her two rescue dogs. Anne-Marie received an undergraduate degree from Leicester University and a Personnel Management Diploma from the National College of Ireland.
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