Shane Durkee's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Shane Durkee's Research experience:Vice President Platform Innovation, Consumer Health Research & Development at LonzaShane Durkee is currently a Global Director, Innovation and New Technology at Bayer HealthCare from July 2008 to October 2011 (3 years 4 months). Develop, implement and lead the overall strategy for innovation within three business units, Nutritionals, Dermatologicals and Gastrointestinals accounting for over 2 billion Euro in sales. Provide leadership and oversight to acquisitions, licensing activities, proof of concept, ideation and pipeline development. Director, Medical Nutritionals & Innovation/New Technology at Bayer ConsumerCare from February 2004 to July 2008 (4 years 6 months). Senior science authority for Bayer Consumer Care’s global Nutritionals business with over 1 billion Euro in sales. Lead, Manage and develop the pipeline and innovation model for global Nutritionals. Select and allocate resources to global projects and manage the development program timeline with both internal and external resources. Provide medical oversight to acquisitions and licensing activities. Vice President Platform Innovation, Consumer Health Research & Development at Lonza in Greater New York City Area. Lonza Consumer Health is a leading provider of technologies and solutions for nutrition, skin and hair care, industrial and home hygiene, and preservation of multiple consumer products. Key focus areas include connecting the dots among all internal Lonza, and external formulation and delivery sciences, while leading the organization in translating insights into a rich pipeline of innovationformulated solutions to consumer health customers. Member of Lonza's Consumer HealthLeadership team with direct impact on the innovation and strategic growth of the division. Chief Innovation Officer at Swanson Health Products from September 2016 to January 2019 (2 years 5 months) in Greater Chicago Area. Swanson is a healthy living, mid-cap consumer company that manufactures, markets and distributes its own brands of health and wellness products as well as national brands in the natural & organic space through e-commerce and catalog channels. KEY FOCUS ARE EXPANDING THE FOCUS ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, BRINGING NEW IDEAS TO MARKET, AND DROVE BEST IN CLASS QUALITY AND COMPLIANCE. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT RESEARCH AND DESIGNATION AT Schiff Nutrition International from October 2011 to August 2012 (11 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. SVP R&D for Schiff Nutrition International, a leading nutritional supplement company. The Schiff brand has been in the nutrition space for 75 years standing for quality and integrity. Key focus areas for growth include leading innovation, building premium brands, expanding the footprint of the company and driving world-class operations.

🎓 Education

Shane Durkee, MBA,Executive Management at University of Phoenix from 1997 to 1999, B.S., Microbiology, Chemistry at Weber State University from 1992 to 1996

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Shane Durkee has more than 10 years of experience in the food industry. Durkee most recently served as Vice President Platform Innovation, Consumer Health R&D at Bayer HealthCare where he developed, implemented and led the overall strategy for innovation within three business units, Nutritionals, Dermatologicals and Gastrointestinals. Durkee also held a position as Director, Medical Nutritionals & Innovation/New Technology at Bayer ConsumerCare where he led and managed the pipeline and innovation model for global Nutritionals. Durkee also served as Senior Science Authority for Bayer Consumer Care’s global Nutritionals business with over 1 billion Euro in sales. Durkee also held an position as Vice President Research and Development at Schiff Nutrition International where he was responsible for driving the Schiff Nutrition International team effort to expand the successful Cholesterol Success line and introduction of the first all natural ACE inhibitor product secured under an exclusive agreement.