Gerald Lema is corporate vice president and president of Baxter's Asia Pacific region. He has responsibility for the company's operations in Japan, Australia/New Zealand, China/Hong Kong, India, North Asia and South East Asia. Lema has more than 20 years of pharmaceutical, diagnostics and healthcare experience in Asia, Japan, Europe, North and South America and the Middle East/Africa. Prior to joining Baxter in 2005, Lema held several management positions in strategy, sales, marketing and business development at Abbott Laboratories. His last position with Abbott was corporate vice president, Asia Pacific, and chairman and representative director, Abbott Japan based in Tokyo. Gerald Lema earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Universidad del Valle, Colombia and a master's degree in business administration from the Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, New Orleans.