Julie Brown became chief operating and financial officer on January, 18 2017.
Brown was chief financial officer of Smith & Nephew from 2013 to 2017. Prior to this Brown was with ICI and AstraZeneca from 1987, where she held the positions of interim group CFO, vice president group finance, VP corporate strategy and regional vice president Latin America. She is also a non-executive director and audit committee chair of Roche Holding Ltd.