Yoon Woong-seop, Vice Chairman of Ildong Pharmaceutical, Appointed as Next Chairman of Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharma Manufacturers Association

Yoon Woong-seop, CEO (Vice Chairman) of Ildong Pharmaceutical, has been appointed as the next chairman of the Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharma Manufacturers Association.

Yoon Woong-seop, Vice Chairman of Ildong Pharmaceutical and Next Chairman of the Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharma Manufacturers Association
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The Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharma Manufacturers Association announced on the afternoon of the 16th, during the first chairman meeting of 2024, that Vice Chairman Yoon was elected as the 16th chairman. The term of the next chairman Yoon is two years.

Born in 1967, Chairman Yoon graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in Applied Statistics in 1990 and earned a master's degree in Accounting from Georgia State University in 1993. He has experience in accounting audit at the global accounting firm KPMG and worked as a loan analyst at Fleet Capital, a financial institution.

After joining Ildong Pharmaceutical in 2005, he served as vice president in 2011, CEO (President) in 2014, and has been leading the company as vice chairman since 2021. He has especially led the expansion of Ildong Pharmaceutical’s research and development (R&D) organization and made bold investments, driving the company’s leap into a specialized new drug development enterprise. He is the grandson of Yoon Yong-gu, the founder of Ildong Pharmaceutical, and the eldest son of Yoon Won-young, chairman of Ildong Holdings.

Within the Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharma Manufacturers Association, he has been active as a member of the vice chairman group since 2017. Since 2021, he has served as the chairman of the association’s Global Cooperation Committee, actively contributing to international cooperation projects such as supporting member companies’ global expansion.

The inauguration and retirement ceremony for current chairman Yoon Sung-tae (Chairman of Huons) and next chairman Yoon Woong-seop will be held at the 79th regular general meeting of the association on the 22nd of next month.

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