Lisa Kelly-Croswell
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Ms. Kelly-Croswell has more than 20 years of experience in a wide range of global and domestic Human Resources leadership roles. She joined Vertex in July 2006.
Ms. Kelly-Croswell was most recently the VP of Human Resources at Nitromed, Inc. a biopharmaceutical firm in Lexington, MA. Previous to Nitromed, Ms. Kelly-Croswell was Senior Vice President of Healthcare and Service Operations at CIGNA where she led the human resources function supporting a 20,000-employee, $15B business unit. Ms. Kelly-Croswell spent a large portion of her career in other world-class human resource organizations including Monsanto Company and Frito-Lay, Inc.
While at Monsanto, Ms. Kelly-Croswell also held an expatriate assignment based in Singapore, leading HR for Southeast Asia where she had responsibility for integrated businesses in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. She also led HR strategy for manufacturing across Asia Pacific.
She received a B.S. in Finance and an M.A. In Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Lisa Kelly-Croswell
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I tell new employees to bring everything they are to work and be ready to have the experience of a lifetime: the Vertex Experience. Our philosophy is that when you come here you have open space to try things and to create. Science is about discovery. The Vertex Experience is about taking that further, discovering who you are and what contributions you can make.
It’s also about being open to learn something from everything and everyone. Every employee has a critical job to help the Company deliver on its promise to patients. We believe that the Vertex Experience should be so strong that both Vertex employees and alumni will encourage others to consider joining us.