Corporate Governance - Management

James C. Foster is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Charles River Laboratories, a provider of essential products and services that help accelerate the drug development process. Since beginning his career at Charles River in 1976, Mr. Foster has held a variety of positions including: Vice President of Administration and General Counsel, President of Charles River Biotechnical Services, and Executive Vice President, Charles River. Mr. Foster was named President ... 

Thomas F. Ackerman joined us in 1988 with over eleven years of combined public accounting and international finance experience. He was named Controller, North America in 1992, became our Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1996, and he was named a Senior Vice President. In 2005 he was named Corporate Executive Vice President. He is currently responsible for overseeing our Accounting and Finance Department, as well as our Information Technology Group. Prior to joining us, Mr. Ackerm... 

Christophe Berthoux, D.V.M., joined Charles River Laboratories in 1991 as Sales and Marketing Director in France and became General Manager of French Operations in 1997. In 1999, Dr. Berthoux became Vice President, Charles River Europe and in 2002 was promoted to Corporate Vice President. At that time, he assumed responsibility for Transgenic Services and Laboratory and Research Services worldwide. Having left in 2004, Dr. Berthoux rejoined Charles River as General Manager, Global Clinical... 

Nancy Gillett, D.V.M., Ph.D., joined us in September 1999 with the acquisition of Sierra Biomedical. Dr. Gillett has 18 years of experience as an ACVP board-certified pathologist and scientific manager. In 1999, Dr. Gillett became Senior Vice President and General Manager of our Sierra Biomedical division with responsibilities for Sierra’s ongoing business operations. In 2002, Dr. Gillett became interim Corporate Vice President of Discovery & Development Services and President & General Manag... 

David P. Johst joined us in 1991 as Corporate Counsel and was named Vice President, Human Resources in 1995. He became Vice President, Human Resources Administration in 1996, and a Senior Vice President in 1999. In 2005, he was named Corporate Executive Vice President. He is currently responsible for overseeing our Human Resources and global Regulatory & Quality Assurance groups, as well as several other corporate staff departments. Mr. Johst also serves as our General Counsel and oversee... 

Real H. Renaud joined us in 1964 and has 40 years of small animal production and related management experience. In 1986, Mr. Renaud became our Vice President of Production, with responsibility for overseeing our North American small animal operations, and was named Vice President, Worldwide Production in 1990. Mr. Renaud became Vice President and General Manager, European and North American Animal Operations in 1996, following a two-year European assignment during which he provided direct ove... 

Brian Bathgate, Ph.D., joined Charles River Laboratories in October 2004 upon the completion of the merger with Inveresk Research Group, where he served as Group Executive Vice President and President of Preclinical Europe Operations. In December 2004, Dr. Bathgate was named Corporate Vice President & President, European Preclinical Services. In 2006, Dr. Bathgate assumed responsibility for global Biopharmaceutical Services and in October 2007, he was named Corporate Senior Vice President. ... 

Jorg Geller, DVM, Ph.D., joined Charles River Germany in 1986, overseeing its RMS production operations. In 1994, his role was expanded to include all European RMS operations. In 1997 and again in 2005, Dr. Geller was given responsibility for additional research model businesses. In October 2007, Dr. Geller was named Corporate Senior Vice President, Japanese Operations and Select Research Model Businesses.

Dr. Geller received his DVM from Justus Liebig University in Giessen and his... 

Dr. John Ho joined us in January 2006 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy. Dr. Ho has over 16 years experience serving pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and provider organizations in a variety of capacities including corporate and M&A strategy formulation, product commercialization, investment decision making, process reengineering and organizational redesign. Prior to joining Charles River, Dr. Ho served as a partner at Accenture in their Health and Life Sciences Practice whe... 

Foster Jordan joined Charles River via the acquisition of Endosafe Inc. in 1994. Mr. Jordan joined Endosafe as R&D Director in 1991 and was responsible for the development of our FDA-licensed in vitro endotoxin detection test kits. Mr. Jordan became Director of Technical Operations in 1994 and in 1997, became General Manager of Charles River Endosafe and assumed responsibility for global In Vitro operations. He became Executive Director in 2001, Corporate Vice President in 2006, and Corpor... 

Davide Molho, D.V.M., joined our Italian operations in 1999 and was promoted to Director of Operations for Research Models and Services (RMS) Italy in 2002. In 2005, his role was expanded to include French RMS operations and in 2007, he became Corporate Vice President, European Research Models and Services, with responsibility for all European RMS operations. In July 2009, Dr. Molho was promoted to Corporate Senior Vice President, North American & European Research Models and Services.

Christopher Perkin joined Charles River Laboratories in October 2004 upon the completion of the merger with Inveresk Research Group where he served as Chief Operating Officer at CTBR Bio-Research, Inc., a subsidiary of Inveresk. In December 2004, Mr. Perkin was named President, Canadian Preclinical Services, and in October 2005, Corporate Vice President. In June 2007, under Mr. Perkin’s direction, Charles River established preclinical operations in China.

Mr. Perkin received his B... 

Nicholas Ventresca joined us in April 2006 as Corporate Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer. Mr. Ventresca brings with him an extensive international background which includes a strong combination of CIO and functional IT responsibility. Prior to joining Charles River, Mr. Ventresca was Vice President, Business Technology for Pfizer, Inc. He also served as CIO of Warner-Lambert’s Schick & Wilkinson Sword group and CTO of Pepsi-Cola International.

Stephanie Wells joined us in March 2007 as Corporate Senior Vice President, Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer. With over twenty-five years of healthcare business experience, Ms. Wells brings with her an international background which includes extensive sales, marketing and general business management experience. Prior to joining Charles River, Ms. Wells was Vice President Worldwide Marketing, Clinical Labs for Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company. She also served as ...