The Pharmaceutical Industry Association of Puerto Rico (PIA-PR) elected its 2008 Board of Directors at the general assembly held during its annual meeting. PIA-PR Executive Committee Members are shown in the photograph above. Standing from left to right are: PIA-PR Operations Vice President Ramón Sepúlveda; Schering-Plough (Commercial) General Manager Miguel Ribas; Pfizer (Manufacturing) General Manager Iván Román; PIA-PR Executive Vice President Agustín Márquez-Veglio; FiddlerGonzálezRodríguez Law Firm Partner PIA-PR Legal Counselor Eduardo Negrón, Esq.; Janssen Ortho LLC (Manufacturing) General Manager Iván Cartagena; and, Johnson Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical (Commercial) General Manager Eric Álvarez. Sitting from left to right are: AMGEN Manufacturing Inc. (Manufacturing) Vice President of Puerto Rico Operations Emilio Rivera; PIA-PR Past Chairperson and Pfizer Caribbean General Manager (Commercial) Gilberto Ríos, MerckSharpDohme (Manufacturing) Vice President and PIA-PR Chairperson Daneris Fernández; Wyeth Puerto Rico Inc. (Commercial) Vice President and General Manager Yvonne McBurney and Eli Lilly (Commercial) General Manager Carlos Caballero; other board members, not in the photo, are Schering Plough del Caribe (Commercial) Manager Healthcare Division William Burn. The PIA-PR Board of Directors is composed of eight member companies, each represented by the company's top executive in Puerto Rico. Four of these companies represent the manufacturing sector and four represent the commercial sector. In addition, there are four ex-officio members: the PIA-PR Past Chairperson, PIA-PR Executive Vice President, PIA-PR Legal Counselor, and PIA-PR OTC Chairperson. PIA-PR gathers and represents research-based multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with operations on the island. These are 18 corporations organized in 34 manufacturing operations with 18 commercial entities. The biopharmaceutical industry represents 25% of the island's Gross Domestic Product and 66% of all island exports. The biopharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico generates over 120,000 direct and indirect jobs on the island.

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