Rick Stadterman
Head of Global R&D
Rick Stadterman joined Bayer HealthCare Diabetes Care in 2005 as Head of Global R&D. In this role, he is responsible for developing and commercializing the right mix of products in the Diabetes Care portfolio and finding the best way to bring them to market as quickly as possible - leveraging the company's core competencies in ways to enhance marketplace success.
Prior to joining Bayer, Rick was Senior Vice President, Research & Development, Callaway Golf Company, Inc., Carlsbad, CA, responsible for managing a $30 million product development budget to generate new products for the company. While at Callaway, he initiated training and incorporation of a Six Sigma culture within the R&D team. For three years, Rick was Director, Global Engineering, Schick Wilkinson Sword Division, Pfizer Company, Milford, CT, responsible for the worldwide engineering leadership in the company's shaving products business. Prior to Schick, Rick held positions at several divisions of GE. He began his career as a Research Engineer at Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI in 1975.
Rick is a Chemical Engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA and an MBA graduate from Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.