Sharlene C. Zagozewski

After living in Connecticut for 20+ years, I almost feel like a Yankee, but my roots are in Pennsylvania where my parents and many friends still reside. It is from my Pennsylvania roots that I came to know the Dragon we are all working so hard to defeat.  From a distance, I watched the courage and determination as well as the frustration of my good friends Janice and Jim Bariski, as they fought Jim's LMS.  It is for them, their family and everyone like them who engages in this battle that I will do what I can to help.

My husband, Paul and I have been blessed with a wonderful family which now includes five grandchildren, Carter (5 years), Morgan (3 years) and Claudia (6 months) and their parents, our younger son, Scott and his wife, Melissa, and they are local!  Our older son, Tod, is in New Jersey with his wife Megann and daughters Allyson (6 years) and Katherine (3 months). 

Balancing family life, work life and spiritual life has always been a challenge.

I have worked in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry for 30+ years and now have responsibility for establishing and developing a Business Intelligence effort at Boehringer Ingelheim, Pharma.  This includes organizing the people, processes and policies of the intelligence groups and creating a knowledge-sharing culture within the company to support an intelligence effort. Prior to Business Intelligence, I led new product development teams as Associate Director, Project Management and spent six years as a Manager in Sales Training, following 12 years in Field Sales with Boehringer Ingelheim and Hoffmann La Roche. 

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