Bill Garriock is a professional company director and the retired Chairman and former President of MDS SCIEX, the analytical instrument division of MDS Inc. and Executive-at-Large for MDS Inc., a health and life sciences company. He brings a strong strategic, marketing, operational and general management perspective to his assignments, shaped by experiences with high growth companies, start-ups, turnarounds, high and low margin businesses and industry associations.
From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Garriock was Vice President and Managing Partner (Pharmaceuticals) of MDS Health Ventures Inc., following eighteen years as President and CEO of Miles Canada Inc. (now Bayer Canada Inc.), a pharmaceutical, diagnostics and consumer products company. Mr. Garriock serves as Chairman or Director of a number of public and private companies, including Cipher Pharmaceutical Inc., Biomedical Photometrics and World Heart Corporation. Previously, he served as Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Canada (now Rx&D) and of the Non-Prescription Drug Manufacturers Association of Canada.
Mr. Garriock is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and obtained his MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Business. |