Takeda promotes captive executive

Tony Ahern has been promoted to the position of senior director, international controller at pharmaceutical company Takeda, based in Dublin in Ireland.

Ahern will lead a team responsible for the controllership of complex entities in Ireland, Switzerland and Austria and will also lead a team responsible for global divestiture and integration finance and accounting activities.

He was previously finance director, international controllership at Takeda from January 2018 to July 2023, where his duties included being director of Irish entities including a captive insurance company.

Prior to that he was head of record to report, EMEA at Merck from 2011 to 2017, again in Dublin, Ireland.