Board of Directors
Our goal is to ensure the progressive advancement of the medical and economic success of our company. To enable our medium-sized family business from Iserlohn to succeed at an international level, we have focussed on strengthening our company management team. We have added three directors with a wealth of experience and competence to assist with our long-term company planning and to make a personal contribution in transforming our visions into reality.
Dr med. Katja Pütter-Ammer
Dr. Katja Pütter-Ammer is managing partner of the MEDICE Health Family in the third generation.
Dr. Katja Pütter-Ammer is a medical doctor with additional training as a ‘Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Medicine’ at the University of Witten-Herdecke.
After her studies, she worked as a doctor at the University Hospital in Munich and then went to Boston for research and training at Tufts University and Harvard University.
To prepare for taking over the family business, Katja Pütter-Ammer moved to GlaxoSmithKline after her stay in the USA, where she acquired additional expertise in the areas of clinical research and product management.
Since 2002, she and her husband have been managing partners of MEDICE. Together they have consistently expanded the market position and made the family company one of the most successful pharmaceutical manufacturers in Europe in the fields of ADHD and nephrology/urology. MEDICE is also one of the leading suppliers of over-the-counter brands in pharmacies.
Over the past few years, MEDICE has transformed itself into the MEDICE Health Family with the goal of becoming a leading developer and provider of integrated and diverse healthcare solutions. To further improve patient care, the MEDICE Health Family uses its pharmacological expertise to develop clinically validated multimodal healthcare solutions that combine pharmaceuticals, digital health and nutritional concepts.
In Dr. Pütter-Ammer's entrepreneurial understanding, health consists of three facets: physical/mental, social and environmental health.
With a focus on ecological health, she founded the company sustainable4U in 2020, which develops future-oriented solutions for the areas of nutrition and the environment. In her social commitment, she focuses on projects that specifically counteract the development of health problems. Most recently, she founded the Katja Pütter-Ammer Foundation. This is committed to strengthening the mental health of children and young people.
Dr med. Dr. oec. Richard Ammer
Dr. med. Dr. oec. Richard Ammer is a partner in the company together with his wife Dr. Katja Pütter-Ammer and Chairman of the Management Board.
Richard Ammer, born in Munich in 1970, is a medical doctor and business economist and has been responsible for new business development at MEDICE since 2003, including research & development, production and international marketing.
He initiated a sustainable waste separation concept for Munich's household waste as a student representative during his high school years - interested in qualitative growth.
After studying medicine in Munich (TU, 1990-95), Beijing (1992), and Boston (HMS, 1995/96) with scholarships from the Hanns Seidl Foundation and the DAAD, among others, and clinical and scientific training at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital (1996-2000) with a scholarship from the DFG, he continued his training as an internist at the German Heart Center in Munich (2000-2001) and the University Hospital in Münster (since 2001).
He was awarded the Young Investigator Award in Basic Science 2001 (Stockholm) by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for his research work on atrial fibrillation, for which he also received his doctorate. He was coordinator/managing director of the BMBF Competence Network for Atrial Fibrillation (Central University Hospital Münster) from 2002-05 and has been working for 20 years at the University Hospital Münster in internal medicine in patient care and academic teaching, even today in part-time employment (dialysis, kidney transplant aftercare, anemia management).
He studied business administration at the Harvard Extension School and at the University of St. Gallen, where he completed his doctorate and PhD. He has been a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen for 20 years.
In 2003, Dr. Richard Ammer joined the management of MEDICE in order to continue the family tradition together with his wife, but also to react proactively to the 2004 healthcare reform (GMG) with its challenges, especially for medium-sized pharmaceutical companies.
Dr. Uwe Baumann
Dr. Uwe Baumann has been Managing Director at MEDICE since 1.7.2021 and is responsible for the PCC division. Since August 1, 2021, he has also been Managing Director of Schaper & Brümmer, which is part of the MEDICE Health Family.
He was born in Essen in 1959. The microbiologist received his doctorate from the Westphalian Wilhelms University. From 1985 to 1995, Uwe Baumann was active as a local politician for the “Bündnis 90/Die Grünen” party in Münster, including 5 years as parliamentary group chairman in the city council. After some time in university research, Uwe Baumann moved to the pharmaceutical industry in 1993 and held senior positions at Hoffman-La Roche, Novartis and Bionorica before joining MEDICE.
In addition, he taught marketing and strategy at the Cooperative State University in Lörrach.
Annick Berreur-Igersheim
Annick Berreur-Igersheim has been responsible for People, Culture and Transformation as Managing Director since January 2024.
She previously worked at F. Hoffmann La Roche AG (Basel) as Global People & Culture Business Partner. In this role, she gradually assumed responsibility for the following divisions over a period of eleven years: Procurement & Engineering, Biologics Drug Products (Pharma Technical Operations), and Pharma Development Strategy - Safety & Risk Management & Quality.
At the beginning of 2021, Annick Berreur-Igersheim moved to the area of Regulatory Affairs, Regulatory Data & Content Management as Chief of Staff and was subsequently responsible for Clinical Development, Clinical Operations & Medical Affairs in the Roche Diagnostics division as Global People & Culture Business Partner.
Annick Berreur-Igersheim was born in Mulhouse, France, in 1972. She completed a dual Master's degree in Applied Foreign Languages and Carrières Internationales at the Université de Haute-Alsace, France and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. She started her career as a German and French teacher in Scotland.
She spent the first nine years of her career in industry as a product manager, training and communications manager, first at Vitra AG and then at SOTAX AG.
She has built up her expertise in the area of People & Culture over the past 20 years.
She has been responsible for HR matters at companies such as Novartis, Applied Materials and most recently Roche. She is experienced as a headhunter, staffing manager and in international leadership development and transformation management.
She is also certified as a coach, leadership practitioner and transformation leader and therefore has the expertise to successfully support cultural change at Corporate level.
Eric Neyret
Eric Neyret has been a member of the Board of Managing Directors for Finance, Controlling and Administration since 2012.
Eric Neyret was born in Lyon (France) in 1964, where he also graduated in Politics, with a specialism in economics.
After completing his education, he worked for many years in international pharmaceutical companies. In this time, his work focused on establishing regional organisations to increase the international presence of the companies, and on developing the structures necessary in the wake of this company expansion, as well as on commercial projects.
Most recently, as Vice-Chair of Finance & Services – CFO Europe, he directed the Controlling, Finance, IT and Purchasing departments of an international pharmaceutical company.
MEDICE's international expansion and dramatic growth in recent years has required new national and international structures to be set up, and Eric Neyret has been able to accomplish this successfully at MEDICE thanks to his many years of experience.