Dr. Stephen Armstrong

• Develop strategy, create structure, lead execution of enterprise-wide strategic priorities to support expansion and deliver profitable growth • Build business excellence capabilities and Lean-based “Lonza Business Management System” across entire organization: partnering, coaching leadership at all levels, achieve improvements, deliver +US$100 million per year profit-level benefits • Member of Lonza’s top 12-member executive leadership team, directly reporting to CEO

• Led carve-out and divestment of chemicals division with Chairman/CEO: US$4.7 Bio. sale to PE, +US$600 Mio. above expectations, 3 mo. early • Achieved +10% growth by leading setup of regional organizations in Asia, based 50% in Bangkok, strengthen customer base, deputy GM, interim CFO of SE Asia • Led organization-wide Risk as Group Risk Officer • Co-led integration of a US$5 Bio. acquisition; identified, executed, followed-up on M&A deals; created integration “playbook” • Co-led global Covid Task Force

• Responsible for corporate cash flow including investments, achieving improvements in capital project delivery & working capital • Achieved significant improvements in execution of CHF 500 Mio. p.a. Capex portfolio: 70% reduction in cost overruns, delays, incomplete business case delivery • Chair Investment Committee for all major Pharma, Biotech & Chemical projects: total portfolio +CHF 1.5 Bio. • Pioneer new strategic growth programs with CEO • Corporate Development team member: M&A, Risk, Divestments

• Global business financial controller for worldwide network: revenue of CHF 200 Million • Lead strategy, planning, and budget process with top management • Lead business due diligence and integration of new acquisitions • Develop and deploy Life Science-oriented Corporate Security Risk assessment

• Lead and build harmonized GMP/GLP quality management system for global network • Establish and lead global program of risk-based quality assurance audits (+20/year) • Ensure compliance with regulatory authority requirements (e.g., US FDA) • Pioneer Lean and Process Improvement Transformations in regulated (GMP) environments

• Leader of Strategy and Continuous Improvement programs for laboratories • Lead and manage more than 60 international performance improvement projects • Create and lead operational excellence program for global network of 700 laboratories • Create, implement, lead global Lean program in 40 countries/+250 projects • Train and coach +250 colleagues as Lean Leaders • Create and deploy forecasting models for global trade commodity businesses

• Recipient of prestigious CERN Research Fellowship • Performed cutting-edge physics research including Higgs Boson searches • Project management and leadership of three international teams • Improved analyses, savings years of cost- and manpower-intensive run time • Supervision, mentorship, coaching of research scientists and Ph.D. students

• eCommerce expert for Financial Services, Media, Entertainment sectors • Strategic assessment of global business opportunities for McKinsey • Create and implement innovative models synthesizing metrics as part of global initiative

• Research in Higgs Boson Searches and Heavy Flavour Physics • Ph.D. Thesis: Searches for the Higgs Boson at the Large Electron Positron Collider • Development and application of Artificial Intelligence to large data sets

Thesis Topic: Searches for the Higgs Boson at CERN. Thesis Advisor: Professor Sau Lan Wu. High Energy Physics. Applications of Artificial Intelligence to large data sets. Multivariate analysis.

Intermediate Energy Nuclear Physics