Board of Directors
PATRICK D. WALSH, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Walsh has served as a director since May 2018 and has been Chairman of the
Board since June 2020. He also served as interim Chief Executive Officer of ANI from May 2020 to September 2020. In March 2021, Mr. Walsh was appointed as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alcami, a global pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization. He retired as CEO in June 2023 but still serves as Chairman. Mr. Walsh co-founded TriPharm Services, an injectable manufacturing business which was acquired by Alcami, and served as its Chief Executive Officer from May 2019 to April 2020. From 2015 to February 2019, Mr. Walsh was the Chief Executive Officer of Avista Pharma, a private equity-backed global provider of contract manufacturing, development and analytical testing services that was acquired by Cambrex. Mr. Walsh’s earlier career includes serving as Chief Executive Officer of AAIPharma Services Corporation in Wilmington, North Carolina, a global provider of contract manufacturing services that was acquired in 2014, as
Chief Executive Officer of Kadmus Pharma, which was acquired by Organon Pharma, and also serving as President and Chief Operating Officer and board member of publicly-traded Gensia-Sicor, which was acquired by Teva. Mr. Walsh currently serves as an independent director of Industria Chemica Emiliano (I.C.E), a private-equity backed specialty chemical company based in Milan, Italy. Mr. Walsh is an Operating Partner (part-time) at healthcare private equity firm Ampersand Capital located in Wellesley, MA and is also Chairman and founder of Diligence Group LLC based in Durham, North Carolina. Mr. Walsh’s prior board of director experience includes serving as Chairman of private equity backed Brammer Bio, an independent director at Landec, Avid Bioservices, Medpharm Ltd. and he has previously served as a director in numerous biotechnology and healthcare organizations over the course of his 40-plus year career.
Chairman of the Board
THOMAS J. HAUGHEY, Director
Mr. Haughey has been a member of the Board since May 2018. Mr. Haughey held the role of General Counsel and Secretary at Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. (“Par”) from 2003 through 2016. In addition to his role as General Counsel, he has held various additional executive roles at Par, including President from 2011 to 2012 and Chief Administrative Officer from 2012 to 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Haughey held positions at Schering-Plough Corporation, where he was Chief Counsel from 1998 to 2001 and Legal Director from 2001 to 2003. Previously, Mr. Haughey was an attorney at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and a certified public accountant at Arthur Anderson & Co. Mr. Haughey earned a B.S. in accounting at St. John’s University and a J.D. at the New York University School of Law.
Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
NIKHIL LALWANI, Director and President and CEO
Mr. Lalwani is ANI’s President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of ANI’s Board. Prior to joining ANI in September 2020, Mr. Lalwani worked at Cipla Ltd (NSE: CIPLA), a global pharmaceutical company, from May 2012 to August 2020 where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including CEO of Cipla USA, CEO of InvaGen, Head of US Strategy, M&A & Integration, and Head of Cipla’s Global Respiratory business. In these roles, Mr. Lalwani developed and executed multi-year strategic growth plans for key products and facilitated successful acquisitions as Cipla entered the specialty pharmaceutical space. Prior to Cipla, Mr. Lalwani was an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company serving pharmaceutical and healthcare companies across the world, and an engineer with Medtronic. Mr. Lalwani holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
MATTHEW J. LEONARD, R.Ph., Director
Mr. Leonard has been a member of the Board since August 2023. In December 2023,
Mr. Leonard joined Pfizer, Inc. as Senior Vice President, Global Access and Value, where he is accountable for leading affordable and sustainable access for patients globally across the Pfizer portfolio. He previously served as the Chief Pharmacy Strategy Officer at Capsule, a digital healthcare company focused on improving the delivery of pharmacy services, and also as Executive Vice President, President North America, and Global Supply Chain Officer at Covetrus. Prior to Covetrus, Mr. Leonard spent 24 years in a variety of leadership roles with CVS Health, most recently as Executive Vice President, Pharmaceutical Contracting, Purchasing and Managed Care. He also served as Chairman of the Board and President at Red Oak Sourcing, LLC, a joint venture between CVS Health and Cardinal Health, where he was responsible for securing an $8 billion portfolio of generic drugs. Mr. Leonard holds a B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island and is a Registered Pharmacist in the State of Rhode Island.
Member of the Audit and Finance Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
ANTONIO PERA, Director
Mr. Pera has been a member of the Board since August 2020. He served as President of Par Pharmaceuticals Companies, Inc. (“Par”), the fifth-largest generic manufacturer in the United States, which is now part of Endo International, plc, from December 2013 until his retirement in August 2019. Prior to Par, Mr. Pera held leadership positions at AmerisourceBergen, American Pharmaceuticals Partners,
Bedford Laboratories, a division of Ben Venue Laboratories, and Baxter Healthcare. His breadth of experience spans sales, marketing, supply chain operations, and licensing, and he has played a pivotal role in the successful growth and commercialization efforts at several successful pharma entities. Mr. Pera holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. from DePaul University.
Chair of the Compensation Committee
MUTHUSAMY "SAMY" SHANMUGAM, Director and Head of R&D and COO of NJ Operations
Mr. Shanmugam is ANI’s Head of Research & Development and Chief Operating Officer of New Jersey Operations and a member of ANI’s Board. Mr. Shanmugam joined the Board in November 2021 in connection with ANI's acquisition of Novitium Pharma, where he was the President and Founder. Mr. Shanmugam has over three decades of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently serving as President of Novitium from 2016 to November 2021. Mr. Shanmugam began his career as a formulation scientist at Kali Laboratories, Inc. and grew to become a leading formulation development scientist in the generic drug industry. Prior to co-founding Novitium, Mr. Shanmugam also held positions at Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. and Novel Laboratories, Inc. Mr. Shanmugam is a director and founder of Nuray Chemicals Private Limited and Sthree Chemicals Private Limited, both located in India and engaged in manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and is a director and founder of SS Pharma LLC, which acts as a U.S. agent for sales of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Mr. Shanmugam is also a director and founder of Scitus Pharma Services Pvt Ltd, a clinical research organization also located in India. Mr.
Shanmugam obtained his M.S. in Industrial Pharmacy from the Tamil Nadu Dr.
M.G.R. Medical University and is a registered pharmacist in the state of New York.
DR. RENEE P. TANNENBAUM, Pharm.D., MBA
Dr. Tannenbaum joined the Board in March 2022. Dr. Tannenbaum currently serves as Head of Corporate Development for Bench International, an executive search firm focused on biotech and life sciences. She also serves as a strategic advisor for several biopharmaceutical and device companies and serves on the Cardiff Oncology, Inc. Board of Directors and as a Board Advisor to Aerami Therapeutics, Inc. She was previously Vice President of Global Partnering at Halozyme, Inc. and Head of Global Customer Excellence at AbbVie, where she was responsible for building commercial capabilities for the organization. Previously, Dr. Tannenbaum served as President of Myrtle Potter & Company, LLC, a global life sciences consulting and advisory firm and Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to her role at Elan, Dr. Tannenbaum was at Novartis Pharma AG, where she led the Global Commercial Operations organization. She also spent nine years at Bristol-Myers Squibb and 16 years at Merck and Company, Inc. where she held a variety of leadership positions. Dr. Tannenbaum received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Sciences, her M.B.A. from Temple University, and her B.S in Pharmacy from the University of Connecticut.
Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
JEANNE THOMA, Director
Ms. Thoma has been a member of the Board since August 2020. Since December 2020, Ms. Thoma has served as a director of Avid Bioservices, Inc. In November 2021, Ms. Thoma joined the Board of Nanoform Finland Oyj, a producer of nanoformed
drug particles. In January 2022, Ms. Thoma joined the Board of Pharmathen Global
B.V. Previously, Ms. Thoma was on the Board of Vectura Group plc. from December
2020 until the sale of the company in October 2021. She is the former President and CEO of SPI Pharma Inc., a global pharmaceuticals ingredients company and an innovative solutions provider of ingredients and drug delivery systems. Prior to joining SPI in January 2017, Ms. Thoma worked at Lonza AG, a Switzerland-based biotech company, where she held positions of increasing responsibility, including President and COO of the Microbial Control Business Sector, and then as an independent consultant to various companies. Prior to joining Lonza in 2007, Ms. Thoma spent 14 years at BASF Corp. in the Pharma Solutions business where she held various leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and Operations. Ms. Thoma is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Drug Chemical and Associated Technologies Association. Ms. Thoma holds a B.S. from Montclair State University and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Member of the Audit and Finance Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
