From Cargill to Elanco to Bayer: Lin changes direction
Sarena Lin is leaving Elanco Animal Health to join Bayer AG as chief transformation and talent officer.
At Elanco, she was a member of its executive committee, responsible for the areas of transformation and technology.
Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Harvard University in Boston, and later received her MBA in Strategy and a Master’s degree in International Relations at Yale University.
She worked at McKinsey from 1998 to 2011. From 2011 to 2017 she acted as the corporate vice president of strategy and business development and subsequently as president of the feed and nutrition business at Cargill in Minneapolis. She then joined Elanco, where she had a number of executive level roles.