Former Lego toy executive Tim Brooks has joined Hikma Pharmaceuticals as chief sustainability officer. Here are four things to know about the pharmaceuticals company and Brooks' executive experience.
1. Business Scope and Scale: Hikma Pharmaceuticals, founded in 1978, is based in London, United Kingdom. The company offers generic, speciality and branded pharmaceutical products to hospitals, physicians and pharmacists across North America, MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and Europe. Hikma has roughly 30 manufacturing plants, nine R&D centers and 9,100 employees worldwide.
2. Sustainability Goals and Milestones: Hikma has reduced its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 15% since 2020, according to the company's 2023 Sustainability Report. Key priorities for 2024 include a review of double materiality in preparation for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) reporting, and stakeholder engagement insights, the 2023 report said. The report did not mention a target date for net-zero emissions.
3. Executive Experience: Tim Brooks, before joining Hikma, spend roughly 12 years at Lego -- rising to the CSO post in January 2016. He previously held key roles at Tesco Stores, PRP Architects, and Greenstone Carbon Management, among other career stops.
4. Executive Perspectives: In a LinkedIn update, Brooks wrote: "How do you leave one of the best loved brands in the world and move into a totally different industry. The answer, when it comes to sustainability, is ‘purpose’. After 12 fantastic and transformative years at The LEGO Group, I’ve moved on to lead Sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry. I’ll be forever grateful to the LEGO Group for all the opportunities, growth, and trust I was given; it shaped the biggest part of my career to date, and moving to Denmark changed our family in so many amazing ways. But to keep growing, we also need to change."
Brooks added: "There are many similarities between toy manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, (quality and safety to name a few), but it’s totally different in most of the ways that count. It’s going to be an exciting and challenging learning curve, but just as in the LEGO Group, at the centre of Hikma is also purpose; mission driven purpose. Brining affordable medicines to people across the world in order to fundamentally change their lives was something that excited me from the beginning of my conversations with Hikma. I can’t wait to see where it leads."
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