Elanco Animal Health announced this week that Sarena Lin, executive vice president of Transformation and Technology, will take a role outside of the company at the end of January. Lin has led the company’s stand up and integration efforts over the last year, helping position Elanco for its final phases of integration and value capture.  

Joining Elanco as head of North American operations in 2018, Lin most recently oversaw the creation of the company’s technology infrastructure post-separation from Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), as well as the successful closure and first phases of integration of Bayer’s animal health business into Elanco. This included the completion of Elanco’s own IT operations and simultaneous build out of two Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to operate the standalone and newly acquired business.

“The work done by Sarena’s team to stand Elanco up as an independent company has helped us become a stronger, stable entity,” said Jeffrey Simmons, Elanco president and chief executive officer. “I want to thank Sarena for her valuable contributions and wish her well. Because of the transformation work she led with her team, we are well positioned to begin the next phase of integration.”

As the integration enters its next phase, technology and transformation work will streamline, localizing ownership of the structure and technology to ensure affiliates are equipped to address the diverse needs of customers. Responsibility for finance and productivity initiatives related to the integration and the IT organization will shift to Todd Young, Chief Financial Officer.

The changes are a key milestone in Elanco’s progression through the Innovation, Productivity and Portfolio (IPP) strategy. As the company outlined at its first Investor Day last month, the next phase of transformation will create shareholder value and increase productivity through:

Additionally, the company outlined near-term growth drivers including:

“There has been a great deal of momentum created as we move into 2021,” Simmons said. “We have been in a state of physical growth over the past few years, and now we are shifting to nurture that growth and its investment to return even greater value for shareholders and customers alike.”