Maria Crowe has been President of Manufacturing Operations at Eli Lilly and Company since 2012, putting her in charge of the firm’s manufacturing network of 20+ sites on five continents. She is also in charge of Lilly’s contract-manufacturing organization. Other roles she has held at the firm include: VP for Global Drug Product Manufacturing, VP for Drug Product Manufacturing in the US and Latin America, GM of Lilly in Ireland, GM of Lilly del Caribe in Puerto Rico and Plant Manager of the company’s Elanco plant in Tippecanoe. Crowe joined the firm in 1982.