Demissie Alemayehu is Vice President of Statistics at Pfizer. He has over 25 years of leadership experience in the pharmaceutical industry and academic institutions. He has been influential externally, with decades of research and teaching experience at major institutions. He has held important offices at key professional societies and has served on editorial boards of major journals. Demissie has published extensively in refereed journals and has co-authored or edited three monographs. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and holds a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley.