Kris Lee is an accomplished biopharmaceutical executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning global supply chain management, commercial manufacturing, product launches, strategic partnerships, and commercial operations. Currently serving as Vice President of Global Supply & Manufacturing at SK Life Science, Inc., Kris oversees Global Supply Chain Management and Commercial Production Management activities across SK Life Science and SK Biopharmaceuticals in the United States and Korea.

The Global Supply & Manufacturing organization is responsible for ensuring the reliable, efficient, and scalable supply of SK products to patients. By integrating demand and supply planning, external manufacturing, logistics, contract management, and technology-enabled operations, the organization supports commercial growth while maintaining supply continuity and operational excellence.

The Global Supply & Manufacturing organization Kris oversees:

• Global Supply Chain Management: Leads integrated demand and supply planning, logistics, and supply execution across SK Life Science and SK Biopharmaceuticals. The function coordinates activities across internal teams, commercial partners, and external manufacturers to maintain product availability, manage inventory, and support evolving business requirements.
• Commercial Production Management: Oversees contract manufacturing organization strategy, purchase-order execution, contract management, and external manufacturing relationships. The function establishes the governance and operating discipline needed to strengthen supplier performance, manage risk, and support the reliable production of commercial products.

Before joining SK Life Science, Kris spent nearly 12 years at Samsung Bioepis in senior commercial strategy and supply chain leadership roles. As Vice President of Commercial Strategy, Kris helped secure major U.S. private-label opportunities and supported multiple biosimilar launches in the United States, Europe and ROW. Previously, as Vice President and Director of Supply Chain Management, Kris’s responsibilities included clinical supply, commercial operations, logistics, planning, procurement, contract management, and launch support.

Previously Kris held supply chain and global operations leadership roles in various industries and at companies such as Amgen, Unilever, Hoffmann-La Roche, and BASF.

Kris earned a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University.