David Ford is vice president of human resources for North America at Sanofi. Sanofi employs approximately 20,000 people across the United States and Canada. Based in Sanofi's New Jersey office since 2011, Ford joined the life sciences industry in 2002 as Sanofi's human resources director for the U.K. In 2004, he led the project for integrating Sanofi and Aventis in the U.K. In 2005, he became vice president of human resources for global operations, based in Paris, where his team supported the more than 45,000 people in Sanofi's worldwide commercial activities. In 2010 Ford was charged with leading HR development for Sanofi, building talent and leadership development platforms as part of the company's transformation initiative. Before joining Sanofi, he spent 13 years working for the New Zealand dairy industry, initially in New Zealand but also in regional roles covering Latin America and Europe. Ford holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD in France.

Panel:
Managing Talent and Building a Unified Workforce

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