William (Bill) Rich Amgen, Inc.

Bill Rich is Amgen Vice President, Device and Final Drug Product Technologies. He is accountable for primary container science, secondary packaging technologies, device engineering and human factors design. He sits on the Process Development leadership team.

Bill joined Amgen in 1989 as a Senior Biostatistician and held positions of increasing responsibility in the Department of Biostatistics through 1992. and led a team responsible for the worldwide submission and approval of Neupogen® for the treatment of Severe Chronic Neutropenia.

In 1993 Bill was named Clinical Studies Management Team Leader – Neupogen, where he was responsible for the clinical development of Neupogen for use in infectious diseases such as HIV. Bill was appointed Product Development Team Leader for Kineret® in 1997. In this role he was responsible for the development and implementation of worldwide strategies to move Kineret to commercialization.

Bill moved on to Director of Operations planning in 2000, the group responsible for developing and implementing a global operations plan that is aligned with the corporate product strategy plan for each of Amgen's pipeline and in-line products.

Between 2002 and 2006, Bill held leadership positions with increasing responsibilities in R&D and Operations. In 2006, Bill began managing a global operations team in support of Amgen's international expansion, where he assumed responsibilities for Operations at Amgen KK, Amgen's Japanese affiliate.

In 2010 Bill was promoted to Vice President, International Supply Chain. His responsibilities include managing all regional supply chain activities including local manufacturing for regions outside of North America, including Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. He is also responsible for alliance management.

Most recently Bill was Vice President, External Supply. His areas of responsibilities include contract manufacturing, raw materials and device supply chain, the supplier relationship excellence program (SRE), and multi-regional alliance management