James Kugler serves as Chief Digital Officer of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and CEO of the US subsidiary, EMD Digital Inc. Under his guidance, he helped transform a 350-year-old organization with more than 53,000 employees operating in 60 countries into a science and technology leader by leveraging technology to make lives easier. At the age of 26, James led what would become a transformational process for Sigma Aldrich, culminating in the creation of the largest eCommerce platform in the life science industry, generating more than $1 billion in annual revenue and serving as a catalyst for the acqui...read more