Stephen Welch is our Executive Vice President and Head of Specialty Generics, a role he assumed in August 2022. He has executive responsibility for the Company’s Specialty Generics segment, directly managing all aspects of the segment’s business.
Before that, from January 2022 to August 2022, Mr. Welch served as our Senior Vice President and General Manager, Specialty Generics. He previously served as the segment’s Chief Financial Officer (from December 2020 to January 2022) and Chief Transformation Officer for Mallinckrodt (from August 2019 to June 2022), including during the Company’s Chapter 11 process, and regularly represented the Company in those proceedings.
He joined Mallinckrodt in 2012 and during his time with the Company has held a number of increasingly strategic roles, including Chief of Staff to the President and CEO and Vice President of Corporate Strategy. He began his time at Mallinckrodt in the tax department, focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions transactions and business integrations.
Prior to joining Mallinckrodt, Mr. Welch led the tax functions at Human Genome Sciences, Inc., a formerly publicly listed biopharmaceutical company and PharMerica Corporation, a pharmacy services provider. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Mr. Welch holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from California State University, Bakersfield. In 2023, Mr. Welch completed Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.