Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s leading provider of dialysis products and services, has appointed Helen Giza (51) as Chief Financial Officer as of November 1, 2019. She will succeed Mike Brosnan who announced his retirement from the Company earlier this year after serving as CFO since January 2010.

Helen Giza has been Chief Integration and Divestiture Management Officer at Takeda Pharmaceuticals since 2018. Before joining the Takeda Corporate Executive Team, she served as Chief Financial Officer of Takeda’s U.S. business unit since 2008. Prior to that she held a number of key international finance and controlling positions, amongst others at TAP Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Laboratories. Helen Giza is a U.K. Chartered Certified Accountant and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Stephan Sturm, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Fresenius Medical Care Management AG, said: “Helen Giza is a very skilled financial executive with extensive management experience in the healthcare industry. She will be a great addition to our team and we are very pleased to welcome her to Fresenius Medical Care’s management board.”

Rice Powell, Chief Executive Officer of Fresenius Medical Care and Chairman of the Management Board, said: “We look forward to welcoming Helen to our team. Along with her international financial expertise, Helen brings great experience in the area of acquisitions and successful integration within the healthcare sector.”

Helen Giza said: “I am excited to be joining Fresenius Medical Care, the market leader in dialysis. This new role is a wonderful opportunity to be part of Fresenius Medical Care's continued success.”

After four years of construction Fresenius Vamed has completed the new main building at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) in Kiel. The completion marks the first milestone in the modernization of Germany’s second-largest university hospital, with the main building of the Lübeck location scheduled to open in November. The project includes new construction and the comprehensive renovation of the two university hospital locations, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) apart in Schleswig-Holstein state, and their technical management through 2044. With a total volume of €1.7 billion, the UKSH’s modernization is currently the biggest public-private partnership project in Europe’s healthcare sector.

After four years of construction Fresenius Vamed has completed the new main building at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) in Kiel. The completion marks the first milestone in the modernization of Germany’s second-largest university hospital, with the main building of the Lübeck location scheduled to open in November. The project includes new construction and the comprehensive renovation of the two university hospital locations, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) apart in Schleswig-Holstein state, and their technical management through 2044. With a total volume of €1.7 billion, the UKSH’s modernization is currently the biggest public-private partnership project in Europe’s healthcare sector.