Since January 1st, 2024, Pavol Dobrocky is Country Managing Director of the Boehringer Ingelheim Regional Center Vienna (RCV) with business responsibility for more than 30 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The graduate pharmacist started his career at Boehringer Ingelheim over 25 years ago as a Country Manager in Slovakia. After that, he held several functions and regional leadership positions including the role as General Manager in Russia. Until end of 2023 Pavol Dobrocky was Country Managing Director of Greater China, which includes China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Boehringer Ingelheim has been active in China since 1994 and has developed very dynamically since then. Today, more than 4,000 employees work in several branches. Shanghai is a facility for research & development and a site for biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing.