29 January 2011
Carlos Alonso, a corporate vice president at healthcare company Baxter International, has been named president of Baxter's renal business worldwide.
He oversees a range of products used to treat irreversible kidney failure and is based at McGaw Park, Ill., about 40 miles from Chicago.
Alonso was president of Baxter's Latin America/Canada region until October and had been based in Miami.
He joined Baxter in August 1996 as a business unit director in Spain. In 2000, he became vice president of Baxter's BioScience business for Asia, Australia, Latin America, New Zealand and Turkey.
He was named general manager of Baxter Argentina in 2001, and was appointed vice president of renal in Canada in 2003. In 2004, he was named general manager of Baxter Brazil and soon after added oversight of Argentina and Chile to his responsibilities. In September 2006, Alonso was promoted to president, Latin America, Baxter said.
Before joining Baxter, Alonso was country manager for Dentsply in Spain and Portugal for five years. He also had held management roles at several Spain- and Brazil-based companies, including Leybold-Heraeus, Espec and Oxiteno.
Alonso is a graduate of Brazil's Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba, where he earned his degree in chemical engineering. He also has a master's degree in chemical process automation from the Instituto Quimico de Sarriá in Barcelona, Spain and a master's degree in management from IESE-Universidad de Navarra, also in Barcelona, Spain. Alonso is currently a member of the University of Miami School of Business Healthcare Program Advisory Board.
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