Iskra Reic

Iskra Reic serves as Executive Vice President - Europe and Canada of the Company. She is responsible for our BioPharmaceuticals sales, marketing and commercial operations across our businesses in 30 European countries and Canada. Iskra trained as a Doctor of dental surgery at the Medical University of Zagreb, Croatia. She joined AstraZeneca in 2001 and has held a variety of in-market, regional sales and marketing and general management roles, including in Europe as Head of Commercial Operations for Croatia and Head of Specialty Care Central & Eastern Europe. In 2012, she joined AstraZeneca Russia as Marketing Director. She was appointed General Manager in 2014 and, under her leadership, AstraZeneca achieved a leading share in its three main therapy areas and, during this period, became a top-seven prescription medicine pharmaceutical company. Iskra’s responsibilities were expanded in 2016 to cover both Russia and the Eurasia Area where she drove strong performance from a 1,500-strong team in a complex and dynamic region. Iskra was appointed EVP, Europe in April 2017. Iskra has an International Executive MBA from the IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia.