Liam Condon to become Bayer CropScience CEO

Liam Condon (44) has been appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bayer CropScience subgroup and Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer CropScience effective December 1, 2012. The decision was made by the Supervisory Board of Bayer CropScience at its meeting on Monday evening. He succeeds Sandra E. Peterson, who is leaving the company on November 30. Condon has been Managing Director of Bayer Vital GmbH, Leverkusen, and head of Bayer Pharma's business in Germany since January 2010. Bayer Vital is the business operations company for the Bayer HealthCare subgroup in Germany.

From 2007 until 2010 Condon was Managing Director of Bayer HealthCare China and Bayer Pharma General Manager for China. Condon served as Managing Director of Schering China starting in 2005. Before that he was Regional Marketing and Medical Director for Schering's Asia-Pacific/Middle East region, based in Berlin. He also served for five years as head of a business unit in Japan, based in Osaka. Condon had previously worked in various marketing and sales functions at Schering in Germany.