Catalent Announces Plan for Alessandro Maselli to Become CEO

SOMERSET, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Catalent, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, manufacturing and clinical supply solutions for drugs, biologics, cell and gene therapies, as well as consumer health products, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Alessandro Maselli, currently President and Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s next President and Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2022. Maselli will also join the company’s Board of Directors upon assuming his new role. Current Chair and Chief Executive Officer John Chiminski will remain in his present role until July 1, 2022, when he will assume the position of Executive Chair of the Board.

“I am grateful and humbled to have had the opportunity to lead Catalent over the past 12 years, and I’m pleased to congratulate Alessandro, an experienced leader who has been critical to Catalent’s success,” said John Chiminski, Chair and Chief Executive Officer. “Alessandro knows every aspect of Catalent’s business and has been instrumental in developing and executing our strategy, including ensuring that Catalent was prepared to manufacture over 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses that we successfully delivered in record time during 2021, meeting our commitments to our patients, our customers, and all our stakeholders. I am confident that Alessandro’s leadership will enable Catalent to continue its record of strong performance and growth.”

“I am deeply honored to have the opportunity to succeed John as Catalent’s Chief Executive Officer,” said Alessandro Maselli, President and Chief Operating Officer. “Catalent plays a critical role in the global healthcare ecosystem, and for the past decade I’ve been privileged to work alongside our company’s talented, dedicated employees to drive our business and ensure the timely and reliable supply of thousands of important medicines to patients. I’m energized by Catalent’s strong momentum, and I look forward to continuing the record of performance and growth that John established for Catalent, making it the development and manufacturing partner of choice across our customers’ diverse pipelines and product portfolios.”

ABOUT Alessandro Maselli

Alessandro Maselli has more than 11 years of experience at Catalent. He has held key positions at the company since joining in October 2010, from site leadership positions at two important manufacturing facilities in Italy and the United Kingdom to senior positions in global operations, corporate oversight, and strategy. Maselli was appointed Catalent’s President and Chief Operating Officer in February 2019. He joined Catalent in 2010 as Director of Operations at Catalent’s pharmaceutical, nutritional, and cosmetics plant in Aprilia, Italy. Prior to Catalent, Maselli held leadership roles at Alstom and SGS. From 1998 to 2006, he held roles of increasing responsibility from process engineer to operations director at ABB Group. Maselli began his career as an automation systems engineer in the food industry. A native of Italy, Mr. Maselli earned his master’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Rome (“La Sapienza”).

ABOUT CATALENT

Catalent, Inc. (NYSE: CTLT), an S&P 500® company, is the global leader in enabling pharma, biotech, and consumer health partners to optimize product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply for patients around the world. With broad and deep scale and expertise in development sciences, delivery technologies, and multi-modality manufacturing, Catalent is the industry’s preferred partner for personalized medicines, consumer health brand extensions, and blockbuster drugs. Catalent helps accelerate over 1,000 partner programs and launch over 150 new products every year. Its flexible manufacturing platforms at over 50 global sites supply over 70 billion doses of nearly 7,000 products to over 1,000 customers annually. Catalent’s expert workforce exceeds 17,000, including more than 2,500 scientists and technicians. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, the company generated $4 billion in revenue in its 2021 fiscal year. For more information, visit www.catalent.com.