Gilbert Godin
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Industry: Healthcare
Overview
Mr. Godin is Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of Biovail Corporation. Mr. Godin is responsible for our commercial, scientific and product-development capabilities, as well as our manufacturing, contract-development and business development services. Mr. Godin joined us in April 2006 from MDS Pharma Services, a contract research organization that provides drug-discovery and development services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, where he held a series of progressively responsible executive positions in Canada and the U.S., including from October 2004 to April 2006, when he served as President of MDS Pharma Services, a business unit of MDS. Before joining MDS Pharma Services in 1999, Mr. Godin spent eight years with Schering-Plough Corporation, a publicly traded company listed on the NYSE, where he held the technical leadership position in Canada and a business-unit management role in France. He has also held several positions with business and operational accountabilities during his seven-year tenure at L'Oreal Canada Inc. Mr. Godin has a M.B.A. from Concordia University in Montreal. He also holds an engineering degree from Sherbrooke University in Quebec.
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