Leadership
Erica L. Mann
Member of the Bayer HealthCare Executive Committee and Head of the Consumer Care
Division
Erica L. Mann has been a member of the Bayer HealthCare Executive Committee and
responsible for the Consumer Care Division since April 1, 2011.
Erica L. Mann was born in Vereeniging, South Africa, on October 11, 1958. She holds
an undergraduate degree in Analytical Chemistry and a Marketing Management Diploma
from the Institute of Marketing Management, Johannesburg, South Africa.
She began her career in 1982 at Eli Lilly & Company in South Africa as a representative
for the Diabetic Care unit. This was followed by positions in Marketing at Johnson
& Johnson and Lederle Laboratories. In 1992 she was appointed as Head of the Lederle
Pharmaceutical Business in South Africa and in 1994, Mann transferred to Wyeth as
Managing Director for South Africa and Sub-Equatorial Africa. She then held positions
of increasing responsibility at the company through 2009. In 2003, she was appointed
Managing Director of Wyeth in Australia and New Zealand, where she introduced a
range of significant medicines and nutritionals. In April 2009 she assumed the role
of Senior Vice President for Wyeth’s Global Nutritional Business and in October
2009 she moved to the United States to join Pfizer upon its acquisition of Wyeth
where she was most recently President and General Manager for Nutrition and a member
of Pfizer’s Senior Management Team.
Erica L. Mann has held executive positions in several industry organizations, including
the South African Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PMA) and Medicines
Australia, as well as the International Association of Infant Food Manufacturers.
Erica Mann is married and has two children.
