Deborah Tanner
Executive Vice President and
Group President, R&D Laboratories

Ms. Deborah Tanner has responsibility for the Company's R&D Laboratories including Central Laboratory Services, Nonclinical Safety Assessment, Analytical Services, and Discovery and Translational Services. She serves as a member of the Operating Committee as well as the Executive Committee, and reports to the Chief Executive Officer.

Ms. Tanner's 23-year career at Covance began in 1987, when she joined what was then called Hazleton Laboratories in Madison, Wisconsin, as a Quality Assurance Manager.  She subsequently held various managerial positions in metabolism and bioanalytical chemistry and headed Global Marketing for Covance's Early Development business. She then spent two years in Harrogate, UK, leading Analytical Services for Labs Europe.

After 14 years in the Early Development businesses, she was promoted to Vice President of Global Clinical Trial Management Services and Operations for Central Laboratories, eventually assuming additional responsibilities as Site Head for the Indianapolis facility. In 2006, she was promoted to Corporate Senior Vice President of Central Laboratories.

Ms. Tanner has dual undergraduate degrees in Life Sciences/Chemistry and Business Administration and Accounting as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Ms. Tanner is a member of the Society of Toxicology and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.