Sarena Lin (Chinese: 林紹婷, born 9 January 1971) is a Taiwanese-American businesswoman who is a member of the Management Board and Labor Director of Bayer, a DAX company based in Leverkusen.
Sarena Lin | |
|---|---|
| 林紹婷 | |
| Born | 9 January 1971 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Nationality | Taiwanese-American |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (MBA) |
| Occupation | Businessperson |
| Children | 1 |
Early life and education
editLin attended Harvard University in Boston where she studied computer science and graduated from Yale University in New Haven with a degree in international relations and an MBA in strategy.[1][2]
Career
editLin's professional career began in 1998 at McKinsey as Managing Partner in Taipei and manager in New York City.[3] In 2011, served as corporate vice president of strategy and business development and president of feed and nutrition at Cargill in Minneapolis, leaving the company in 2017.[4] In 2018, Lin moved to Elanco Animal Health Incorporated, where she served, among other things, as a member of the Executive Committee dealing with Transformation and Technology.[5]
Lin has been a member of the Bayer Board of Management since February 2021. After Erica Mann, who left the company in 2018, she is only the second woman on the Management Board in the company's history. She also took over the position of labor director that CEO Werner Baumann previously held, making her the HR manager for 100,000 employees.[6] In her new position, she has to implement the reduction of around 12,000 jobs that the group announced in 2020.[7][8][9]
Personal life
editLin has Taiwanese and American citizenship, is married to a German man and has one daughter.[10][9]
References
edit- ^ "Bayer: Sarena Lin wird Chief Transformation and Talent Officer" (in German). 31 January 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Sarena S Lin". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Sarena Lin". Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Bayer beruft mit Sarena Lin wieder eine Frau in den Vorstand". manager-magazin.de (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Elanco Expands Executive Team to Lead Company Post Bayer Animal Health Acquisition". Bloomberg.com. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Ettel, Anja (9 June 2021). Sarena Lin: Hart aber freundlich – wie eine US-Taiwanerin Bayer umbaut - Podcast. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Sarena Lin: Bayer beruft wieder eine Frau in den Vorstand". Handelsblatt.com (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Michler, Inga (21 June 2021). Bayer-Vorständin Sarena Lin über die Frauenquote und Monsanto-Lehren. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ a b "Sarena Lin neu im Vorstand: Auf Bayers Personalchefin warten heikle Aufgaben". RP-Online.de (in German). 11 January 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Das Hochstapler-Syndrom kenne ich: Bayers Top-Managerin über den Weg nach ganz oben". focus.de (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2021.