Biography
Dr. Jeffrey Peris has been a director of Allied since May 1998 and the interim non-executive chairman of the board from April 2009 to June 2009 and has been non-executive Chairman of the Board since July 2009. Since May 2006, Dr. Peris has served as an executive advisor to leading established global and new business entities. Dr. Peris served as the corporate vice president of human resources and chief learning officer of Wyeth (formerly American Home Products Corporation), a global pharmaceutical company, from 2001 until 2006. Dr. Peris was a corporate vice president of Knoll Pharmaceutical (Abbott Laboratories), where he was responsible for human resources, public affairs, and investor relations, from 1998 until 2001. Dr. Peris was a management consultant to various Fortune 100 companies from 1997 until 1998. From 1972 until 1997, Dr. Peris was employed by Merck Co., Inc., a leading, global pharmaceutical company, where he served in senior executive officer roles in R & D, Clinical Drug Development, Global Marketing, and Corporate Human Resources. He was a member of Merck's world renowned Research Management Council.