Stada Names Sandoz Manager as Fifth CEO Since 2016

  • Peter Goldschmidt to replace Albrecht as CEO on Sept. 1
  • Albrecht to take on unspecified nonexecutive role at Stada

The Stada Arzneimittel AG pharmaceutical factory in Bad Vilbel, Germany.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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Stada Arzneimittel AG will get its fifth chief executive officer in a little over two years as the German maker of copycat pills taps a Novartis AG manager to take over from Claudio Albrecht, who was brought in four months ago by the drugmaker’s new owners.

Peter Goldschmidt, who heads the North American operations of Novartis’s generics unit Sandoz, will take the helm at the Bad Vilbel, Germany-based company on Sept. 1, Stada said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Thursday. Albrecht will move to a nonexecutive position, as planned when he was appointed last year, Stada said.