Ms. Church serves as chief compliance officer of Merz North America and global compliance officer for the Merz Group of Companies. Ms. Church has been with Merz since 2009. She held various roles in the legal department until 2012 when she was appointed to lead the newly created compliance department. In this role, she is responsible for strategic and operational leadership to Merz on matters relating to compliance issues, including developing, monitoring and training on compliance with state and federal regulations that apply to all life sciences companies. She assumed responsibility for global compliance in 2015. Before joing Merz, Ms. Church was executive vice president and general counsel of Connetics Corporation, a medical dermatology company that was acquired by Stiefel in 2008. Prior to her career with Stiefel, she served as general counsel of VISX, Inc., a medical device company that pioneered the vision treatment known as LASIK. Ms. Church holds a bachelor?s degree from Duke University and a law degree from New York University. She is a member of the Merz Pharma Board, the management group for the Merz Companies.
