:: Mr. Larry K. DeBoy

Larry joined Lilly in 1969, after graduating from Purdue University with an Engineering degree. He is also a Professional Engineer for the State of Indiana and has an MBA degree from Butler University. Since joining Lilly, he has held a variety of engineering and administrative positions, inlcuding Plant Engineering, Corporate Engineering, Project Development, Facilities Validation, Purchasing, Plant Start-up role, and facility expansion of our plant at Madrid, Spain.

In 1996, Larry accepted the position of General Manager for the China Manufacturing plant located in Suzhou. For the next 4 years Larry managed the start-up of plant included plan of tasks to be done, generation of hiring plan, identification of skills needed, hiring and training of staff, generation of Master Validation Plan for site, identification of all necessary documentation necessary to qualify the Plant to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards, write Standard Operating Procedure's, training programs for staff, development of Preventative Maintenance plan for facility, documentation of tasks, vendor training of staff, execution of Installation Qualification/Operations Qualifications documentation and the manufacturing operations. In 1998 we were the Thirteenth pharmaceutical plant in China to receive GMP certification. Today, Lilly China is one of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in China.

In 2000, Larry returned to the position of Manager of Equipment Development Group (part of the Global Manufacturing Services Group) designing, building and supporting unique and reliable equipment solutions for Lilly.