We must act and do what is right: F. Hoffmann-La Roche's CPO
People Matters|August 2020
In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, Cristina (Cris) A. Wilbur, Chief People Officer, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, shares her views on how healthcare companies are reacting to the pandemic and how the rewards and performance landscape is transforming in these times
Mastufa Ahmed
We must act and do what is right: F. Hoffmann-La Roche's CPO

Cristina (Cris) A. Wilbur is Chief People Officer for F. Hoffmann-La Roche, the world’s largest biotech company, with about 98, 000 people employed in more than 100 countries. In 2002, Cris joined Roche as Director of HR at the Diagnostics US headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana (U.S.) and four years later, she was appointed North America Region Head of HR. In 2010, Cris was named Global Head of HR for the Diagnostics Division and relocated to Roche’s worldwide headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Wilbur has more than 25 years of experience in business and People and Culture (HR), and has her educational background in Finance and Computer Engineering. She is passionate about the discovery and development of each person's potential to enable collective and sustained organizational success, and the powerful combination of capabilities and mindset to unlock innovation and agility.

In this exclusive interaction, Wilbur talks about the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry, how the performance management and rewards systems landscape has changed across organizations globally amid this pandemic, and what the future of healthcare would look like as we come out of this crisis.

Here are the excerpts from the interview.

How is Roche as a multinational healthcare company helping companies and patients to combat COVID-19?

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